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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, a Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8.

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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows the outside of an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8.

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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows the outside of an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8.

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First light images taken by Japan's 'Subaru' telescope

This handout photo of the Orion nebula, released by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) on Jan. 29, has been taken using 'Subaru,' one of the world's largest optical-infrared telescopes located in Hawaii. It shows sharp images of four bright stars called Trapezium, which are normally concealed behind gas clouds. The Subaru Telescope, named after the Japanese word for Pleiades, made verifiable observations of objects 5 billion light years away in the Milky Way Galaxy in two hours, compared with the seven hours it took the orbiting Hubble Telescope, NAOJ officials said. ==Kyodo

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Clearer images of Saturn, Milky Way projected by NAOJ's new system

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan shows images of Saturn and the Milky Way to the press using a new projection system at its 4D2U (Four-Dimensional Digital Universe) Dome Theater in Mitaka, Tokyo, on April 2, 2015, before opening to the public. Visitors can enjoy brighter, higher resolution, and higher contrast images thanks to the new system at the theater. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clearer image of universe projected by NAOJ's new system

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan shows an image of the universe to the press using a new projection system at its 4D2U (Four-Dimensional Digital Universe) Dome Theater in Mitaka, Tokyo, on April 2, 2015, before opening to the public. Visitors can enjoy brighter, higher resolution, and higher contrast images thanks to the new system at the theater. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Subaru telescope captures 'halo' of nebula M57

TOKYO, Japan - The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) released Sept. 17 a picture showing a faint ''halo'' around nebula M57, or the Ring Nebula, some 1,600 light years away from Earth. The Subaru telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the first one to successfully capture the halo surrounding the nebula's clear, white outer ring, NAOJ said.

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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows the outside of an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, a Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows the outside of an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8. (Kyodo)

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Japan observatory releases images of Andromeda Galaxy

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Andromeda Galaxy, some 2.5 million light years from Earth. On Sept. 8, The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) released the photo captured by its large-scale Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.

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Huge Chilean radio telescope to seek new planets, galaxies

TOKYO, Japan - A graphics released April 4 by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) shows a high-altitude radio telescope which scientists from Japan, Europe and North America agreed to build in Chile. The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), the largest of its kind in the world, will mainly consist of 64 moveable 12-meter-diameter dishes distributed in a circle 10 kilometers in diameter.

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Subaru telescope finds 100 floating small objects

TOKYO, Japan - The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) on Feb. 14 announced the discovery of about 100 ''floating small objects'' (seen in photo released by NAOJ) in a star-forming region made through its Subaru optical-infrared telescope in Hawaii. NAOJ said the objects have been found among several hundred faint young objects in the S106 region.