“The Subaru Telescope in Hawaii”. Oh....it was a four-wheel-drive telescope.
“Flick on the brights, Dave. I think I see an exoplanet. How much gas do we have left?”
It’s called the Subaru telescope because it is the flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. In Japanese, Subaru means “six”, but it also the name of the star cluster we call the Pleiades. The car company was at least partly named for the star cluster(check out their logo) and because Subaru was the result of the merger of six smaller Japanese auto companies.
The number of prominent stars in the Pleiades depends on the observer, we traditionally call the Pleiades, “the seven sisters”, but there are hundreds of stars in the Pleiades, several of which are naked eye stars.