Engineers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are still hoping they can keep the partially crippled Akari infrared astronomy satellite running despite a major electrical failure that ...

As the AKARI satellite nears completion of its All Sky Survey, it has released two stunning images of the Large Magellanic Cloud. AKARI is an infrared astronomical satellite from the Japan Aerospace ...

The 21st Scientific Satellite “Akari” which was launched by the M-V Launch Vehicle No. 8 from the Uchinoura Space Center at 6:28 a.m. on February 22, 2006 (Japan Standard Time, JST), was found to be ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) AKARI Infrared Space Telescope has returned spectacular new images showing the earliest stages of star formation and the final stages of the death of ...

PARIS, July 12 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says Japan's high-capability infrared satellite AKARI continues to produce stunning views of the infrared universe. Launched in February 2006, AKARI ...

(Nanowerk News) A research group led by a University of Tokyo researcher, using the AKARI satellite’s Far-Infrared All-Sky data, have created all-sky image maps and released the full database to ...

The most detailed survey of the entire sky at infrared wavelengths has been made by the AKARI satellite. It will help astronomers produce a complete census of all nearby galaxies. AKARI, a Japanese ...

A team of astronomers from Taiwan has uncovered promising evidence suggesting the existence of Planet 9, a hypothesized planet beyond Pluto in the far reaches of our Solar System. This new potential ...

Direction of Object 1 and 2 (solid yellow line). The green squares represent their possible locations based on the kine- matic distance estimates (see Section 4.3 and 4.4). The background is an artist ...

Astronomers have created all-sky image maps and released the full database to researchers. Far-infrared light is the key wavelength range for investigating the formation processes of stars and ...