Suzaku is the fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite. It was
developed under Japan-US international collaboration and was launched
on July 10, 2005, from JAXA Uchinoura Space Center.
If this is your first visit to our site, please also look at ISAS/JAXA
official Suzaku page and Suzaku Learning
Center at NASA/GSFC. As for information before launch, please
visit Astro-E2 page.
General Information
White Dwarf Pulses Like a Pulsar (2008-01-17)
New observations from Suzaku have challenged scientists' conventional understanding of white dwarfs. Observers had believed white dwarfs were inert stellar corpses that slowly cool and fade away, but the new data tell a completely different story. NASA press release
