The wonderful things in which Japan is number one in the world.
In July 2004, Takayuki Ohira’s “MEGASTAR” was established permanently in the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. It can project a total of five million stars that would otherwise be too far to see, at a magnitude of up to 12.5 times their size. Read More »
In 1998, a large scale, optical infrared telescope, named “Subaru”, was established at the top of Mt. Mauna Kea in Hawaii Island by the National Astronomical Observatory. Read More »
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (国立天文台) and others (Koji Ohta and others of Kyoto University, Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo) discovered a primitive galaxy almost as large as the Milky Way Galaxy, and announced it in Nature Magazine, Aug. 1. 1996. Ohta, K., Yamada, T., Nakanishi, K., Kohno, K., Akiyama, M. and Kawabe, R., “Detection of Molecular Gas in the Quasar BR1202 - 0725 at Redshift z = 4.69″ , Nature 382 (1996) 426 Read More »
By Tomonori Totani: Assistant Professor(presently Associate Professor) at Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University , April 1, 2005
By a large scale search of the universe, a phenomenon that light flares will increase greatly in only several days has been discovered emanating from the center of a seemingly usual galaxy that exists at a distance of about four billion light years from the earth. Read More »
