Subaru Telescope’s Insect-Like Compound Eye to Launch in February

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai’i is adding a new weapon to its arsenal, a telescope with a combined eyepiece.

The integrated eyepiece allows Subaru to see about 2,400 objects in space, giving it a very wide field of view and allowing it to look at thousands of objects at once. Subaru’s new instrument will shed light on long-standing questions in astrophysics, which guide the formation and evolution of galaxies and the universe in which they reside.

This instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the most popular instruments in the next generation of the Subaru Telescope. The spectrograph will collect light across the visible and some of the near-infrared ranges. The telescope will help telescopes to see celestial objects from far away.

“This is part of helping to achieve major goals such as continuing the project for a long time, making scientific progress, and sharing the exciting stories from Maunakea with the local community more fully,” said Naoyuki Tamura, a professor at the Subaru Telescope. at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, in an observational article.

“What will come out of this modern tool is something that all Hawai’i people can be proud of; being the pinnacle of international cooperation and community effort,” added Tamura.

The spectrograph will launch a large space probe that will take place over the next five years. In total, 360 nights of telescope time will be used to gather data on the millions of galaxies and thousands of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and our closest galactic neighbor, Andromeda.

The Subaru Telescope is busy. It reveals aspects of the environment from the atmosphere distant galaxies to where no ephemera of rockets are flown above our earth. Last year, Subaru’s data (mainly observations with the telescope’s Hyper Suprime-Cam) revealed two very large ones. including quasars in the early universe, but the telescope also showed that the Kuiper Belt may be bigger more than I thought at first. In other words, the Subaru telescope is very capable, and it runs its deep missions with those that are very close to home.

Subaru’s new eye will build on the legacy of the telescope and give it a performance boost to make more history. So how exactly will the spectrograph change our understanding of the universe? For this reason, you should check out Gizmodo in five years, when the space probe of the telescope is finished.