The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...

The orbit of 2023 KQ14 (in red) compared to the orbits of the other three sednoids (in white). 2023 KQ14was discovered near its perihelion at a ...

The Gemini North telescope and Subaru Telescope have been used to discover most distant merging quasars yet, "seen over 900 ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

Scientists are almost sure that there is a ninth planet. But a study by Japanese astronomers hints that this might not be true. A new cosmic body called a sednoid has been discovered near the Kuiper ...

The object, officially designated 2023 KQ14 and nicknamed “Ammonite,” was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. It belongs to a rare class of bodies known as Sedna-like objects, which orbit ...

PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, astronomers have captured a direct image of GJ504b, a distant exoplanet often referred to as the “second Jupiter.” This exciting discovery was made possible through ...

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