2006.06.17

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In Chile the winter solstice day is about to come. Although we are in winter, we can see stars known as the constellations in summerEin Japan. The picture show…

2006.06.16

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Director General of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and other NAOJ members visited Embassy of Japan in Chile to give progress report on ALMA constru…

2006.06.15

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Two engineers from the Japanese manufacture of the ACA correlator visited the lodging facility at the OSF (Operations Support Facility) and the ACA correlator …

2006.06.14

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From June 13 through 14, ALMA Board was held in Santiago. Shoken Miyama, Director General of NAOJ, attended the meeting as a board member representing Japan, w…

2006.06.13

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The Chilean national TV network, TVN (Televisi�n Nacional de Chile), came to the ALMA site to make a documentary about Masao Uehara, second-generation Chilean …

2006.06.06

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On June 3, an article about Taiwans participation in ALMA was run in Taiwanese newspaper, Liberty Times. We received the article from Nagayoshi Ohashi of Acade…

2006.05.31

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Around 9:00 a.m. on May 31, green clouds appeared in the east sky of Santiago. The picture shows the clouds over Cordillera de los Andes, viewed from Joint ALM…

2006.05.22

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Otaka-san is a woman introduced in letters column of the Asahi Shimbun of May 12. She has worked as a lathe operator for 30 years, and her friend wrote a lette…

2006.05.21

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The 8th ALMA Public Lecture titled We were born from stardust EALMA, a gigantic radiotelescope to explore the mysteries of the universeEwas held at Fukuoka Sci…

2006.05.20

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Wonder Planetarium Looking at the Southern Sky EStars Presented by the Constellation Camera i-CAN and ALMA ProjectEwas held at Kumamoto City Museum. The progra…

2006.05.16

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In planetary science session on the third day of Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2006, Tomohiko Sekiguchi, postdoctoral fellow, gave a presentation on ALMA incl…

2006.05.14

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From May 14 through 18, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2006 is being held at the Makuhari Messe International Conference Hall. NAOJ ALMA Project also participa…

2006.04.28

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Following the 2nd Atacama Conference, TAO staffs conducted a visit to the top of Mt. Chajnantor (5650 m asl), a candidate site for Tokyo Atacama Observatory (T…

2006.04.27

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In Chile, the 2nd Atacama Conference is being held on April 27 and 28 at the Operations Support Facility (OSF). Attendees of the meeting are the representative…

2006.04.25

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The 8th ALMA-J Public Lecture titled We were born from stardust EALMA, the gigantic radio telescope to explore the mysteries of the universeEwill be held on Ma…

2006.04.18

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Lascar (5400 m asl), an active volcano located about 40 km south of the ALMA construction site, erupted around 11:00 am on April 18 local time (midnight on Apr…

2006.04.13

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Exterior finish work of AOS (Array Operations Site) Technical Building at 5,050 m above sea level is almost complete at the construction site in Chile. The pic…

2006.04.12

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In Chile, land formation for the ACA antenna assembly area (32 m x 168 m) has been completed at the construction site of Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2…

2006.03.29

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Astronomical Society of Japan held its 2006 Spring Meeting at Wakayama University from March 27 through 29. In the ALMA Special Session held in the afternoon o…

2006.03.27

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Astronomical Society of Japan held its 2006 Spring Meeting at Wakayama University from March 27 through 29. The program includes twenty presentations related t…