Public outreach

Press releases

• Webb captures star clusters in Cosmic Gems arc (Jun 24, 2024)
  [ESA]
• The Oxygen Mystery in the Early Universe: Unveiling a Rapid Increase (Nov 9, 2023)
  [ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo]
• "A New Lens" into the Universe's Most Energetic Particles (Oct 12, 2023)
  [Subaru Telescope]
• First-of-its-kind measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate weighs in on a longstanding debate in physics and astronomy (May 12, 2023)
  [U. Minnesota]
• Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe (Apr 6, 2023)
  [STScI]
• How to see the invisible: Using dark matter distribution to test our cosmological model (Apr 4, 2023)
  [Kavli IPMU] [Subaru Telescope]
• Hubble Captures 3 Faces of Evolving Supernova in Early Universe (Nov 10, 2022)
  [STScI]
• Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen (Mar 31, 2022)
  [STScI]
• ALMA Discovers Rotating Infant Galaxy with Help of Natural Cosmic Telescope (Apr 22, 2021)
  [ALMA Telescope] [School of Science, Univ. of Tokyo]
• More than Meets the Eye: Complete Imaging of a Cluster Collision (Nov 12, 2020)
  [Subaru Telescope]
• Can Black Hole Fire Up Cold Heart of the Phoenix? (Aug 30, 2020)
  [NAOJ] [School of Science, Univ. of Tokyo]
• Rare Encounters between Cosmic Heavyweights (Aug 27, 2020)
  [Subaru Telescope] [Kavli IPMU]
• Artificial Intelligence tool developed to predict the structure of the Universe (Feb 5, 2020)
  [Kavli IPMU] [CfCA]
• Subaru Telescope helps determine that dark matter is not made up of tiny primordial black holes (Apr 2, 2019)
  [Kavli IPMU] [Subaru Telescope]
• Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe (Mar 13, 2019)
  [Subaru Telescope]
• Cosmological constraints from the first-year Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam survey (Sep 26, 2018)
  [Kavli IPMU] [NAOJ]
• The Farthest Star Ever Seen (Apr 3, 2018)
  [School of Science, Univ. of Tokyo] [Kavli IPMU] [STScI]
  Media Coverage: [Asahi] [Tokyo] [Sankei] [Akahata] [Yomiuri]
• Unprecedentedly Wide and Sharp Dark Matter Map (Mar 1, 2018)
  [Subaru Telescope] [Kavli IPMU]
• Ancient Eye in the Sky (Jul 26, 2016)
  [Subaru Telescope] [School of Science, Univ. of Tokyo] [Kavli IPMU]
• Dark Matter Map Begins to Reveal the Universe's Early History (Jul 2, 2015)
  [Subaru Telescope] [Kavli IPMU]
• ALMA uses 'Natural Telescope' to Image Monstrous Galaxy near the Edge of the Universe (Jun 9, 2015)
  [ALMA] [ESO] [Nature]
• Confirming a 3-D Structural View of a Quasar Outflow ~Conclusions drawn from additional observations~ (Oct 28, 2014)
  [Subaru Telescope]
• Cosmic Illusion Revealed: Gravitational Lens Magnifies Supernova (Apr 25, 2014)
  [Kavli IPMU]
  Media Coverage: [Akahata] [Sankei] [Asahi] [NHK] [BBC]
• `Standard Candle' Supernova Extraordinarily Magnified by Gravitational Lensing (Apr 23, 2013)
  [Kavli IPMU]
  Media Coverage: [Nikkei] [Denki]
• 3-D Observations of the Outflow from an Active Galactic Nucleus (Feb 19, 2013)
  [Subaru Telescope] [Kavli IPMU]
• "Cosmic Mirages" Confirm Accelerated Cosmic Expansion (Apr 10, 2012)
  [Kavli IPMU]
  Media Coverage: [Nikkei]
• Precise measurement of dark matter distribution with strong and weak gravitational lensing (Jan 17, 2012)
  [IPMU] [SuMIRe Project]
  Media Coverage: [Nikkei] [Newton]
• Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Sharpens Subaru Telescope's Eyesight and Opens a New Vision of the Distant Universe (July 6, 2011)
  [Subaru telescope] [IPMU]
• Research Illuminates the Shape of Dark Matter's Distribution (April 26, 2010)
  [Subaru telescope] [ScienceNOW]
• Mysterious Space Blob Discovered at Cosmic Dawn (April 22, 2009)
  [Carnegie Institute of Science] [Subaru telescope]
• Distant quasars live in massive dark matter halos (Feb 9, 2007)
  [SDSS]
• Hubble captures a "five-star" rated gravitational lens (May 23, 2006)
  [ESA] [NASA] [Astronomy Picture of the Day]
• VISUAL "MIRAGES" PROBE DISTRIBUTION OF DARK MATTER (Dec 18, 2003)
  Media Coverage: [Asahi] [Mainichi] [Yomiuri]