The Subaru Telescope is an 8.2-metre optical and infrared telescope operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. It has a single large mirror, one of the largest monolithic mirrors in the world, and it was built to take wide-field pictures of the sky, aided by an instrument called Hyper Suprime-Cam. The name Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster. Astronomers have used it to study distant galaxies, to image exoplanets and discs of dust around young stars, and to survey the sky for dark matter. Its first light came in the late 1990s, and the telescope has been in regular scientific operation ever since.
Before and after
- from 1997 to 2014Founding of G8
- 1997Establishment of Talampaya National Park
- 1997Establishment of Lorentz National Park
- 1997Founding of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- 1997Founding of Subaru Telescope
- 19971997 becomes the warmest year on record
- 25 January 1997Norwegian rocket incident
- 19 February 1997Death of Deng Xiaoping
- 28 February 1997North Hollywood shootout
More in Universe & space
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- 24 May 1981Discovery of Larissa
- 20 January 1986Discovery of Ophelia
- 19 February 1986Launch of Mir
- 18 September 1989Discovery of Naiad
- 20 November 1998Launch of International Space Station
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