Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory operates the Subaru 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope in Hawaii. It will become possible for Japanese scientists to cover the universe with the ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international ... The team comprises more than 300 scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and 12 other research institutions ...

At an extreme water depth of 7 kilometers, the team used the Japanese drilling vessel Chikyu to drill a series of deep boreholes, including a sub-seafloor borehole observatory that intersects the ...