On February 21 (Sat.) and 22 (Sun.), 2026, we held an astronomy training for students from Ena High School in Gifu Prefecture. They estimated the distance to galaxies from photographs of galaxies and used the recession speeds of these galaxies to determine the age of the universe.
On January 31 (Sat.) and February 1 (Sun.), 2026, we held an astronomy training for students from Matsusho-Gakuen High School and Suwa-Seiryo High School in Nagano Prefecture and Nirasaki High School in Yamanashi Prefecture. They estimated the distance to galaxies from photographs of galaxies and used the recession speeds of these galaxies to determine the age of the universe.
On September 5, 2025, Professor Shogo Tachibana of the University of Tokyo Organization for Planetary and Space Science (UTOPS) gave a lecture on space science to sixth-grade students at Nakamura Elementary School in Nerima, Tokyo.
This marked the third consecutive year that classes have been held at the school.
For photos and more details from the event, please visit the following webpage and look for the posts titled 「宇宙の話1」 and 「宇宙の話2」:
https://cms.nerima-tky.ed.jp/swas/index.php?id=107&frame=weblog
On August 2 (Sat.) and 3 (Sun.), 2025, we held an astronomy training for students from Matsumoto-Arigasaki High School and Matsumoto-Fukashi High School in Nagano Prefecture. They estimated the distance to galaxies from photographs of galaxies and used the recession speeds of these galaxies to determine the age of the universe.
On August 4, 2025, sixteen students from Komatsu High School (Ishikawa Prefecture) visited UTOPS.
During their visit, they attended a mock lecture on unsolved problems in the Solar System and on the analysis of samples returned from asteroid Ryugu, followed by a tour of the laboratories.
On June 28, 2025, Professor Shogo Tachibana of the UTOPS will give a lecture at “Asteroid Day Special Talk 2025,” to be held at the Sagamihara City Museum.
His talk, titled “Mission to Apophis 3: Probing the Surface through Impact Experiments,” will introduce ongoing studies related to exploration of the asteroid Apophis.
Date and Time: June 28, 2025, 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Main Conference Room (Basement Floor), Sagamihara City Museum (3-1-15 Takane, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan)
Satellite venues: Kakuda (Miyagi Prefecture) and Kobe (Hyogo Prefecture)
Capacity: 200 people (first-come, first-served)
Admission: Free
For more details, please see here.
A dialogue between novelist and mystery writer Shin Iyoahara and Professor Shogo Tachibana of the UTOPS has been featured in the June issue of Gendai Kagaku, published by Tokyo Kagaku Dojin Co., Ltd.
For more details, please see here.
In conjunction with the “Double Sample Exhibition of Asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu,” held from May 10 to May 18at the Yamanashi Prefectural Science Center, Professor Shogo Tachibana of the University of Tokyo Organization for Planetary and Space Science (UTOPS) delivered a public lecture.
