2016.08.17
ALMA Explores Orion's Turbulent Border
These images show the edge of the vast molecular cloud that lies behind the Orion Nebula, 1400 light-years from Earth. The image of the left shows a wide-field…
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2016.08.02
ALMA Telescope at NINS Nobeyama Exhibition Room
NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory newly established an exhibition room showing the projects of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences and its affiliated in…
2016.07.20
TANABATA Lecture at Santiago Japanese School
The Santiago Japanese School held its annual TANABATA lecture on July 7. This year’s lecture was given by Jin Koda, an associate professor at Stony Broo…
2016.07.19
ALMA Achieved Highest Sensitivity Polarimetry in Millimeter Wavelength
Researchers have demonstrated ALMA’s unprecedented capability for polarimetry in millimeter wavebands. Polarimetry is an important method to investigate …
2016.07.14
ALMA Observes First Protoplanetary Water Snow Line Thanks to Stellar Outburst
New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have produced the first image of a water snow line within a protoplanetary disk. …
2016.07.06
ALMA to Increase its Capacity with Band 1 Receiver
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Board officially approved the production of Band 1 receiver developed by an international team led by t…
2016.06.28
Rotating Ring of Complex Organic Molecules Discovered around Newborn Star: Chemical Diversity in Planet Forming Regions Unveiled
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a rotating ring containing large organic molecules around a protosta…
2016.06.17
ALMA Detected the Most Distant Oxygen
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected a clear signal from oxygen in a galaxy located 13.1 billion light-years aw…
2016.06.15
First Detection of Methyl Alcohol in a Planet-forming Disc
The organic molecule methyl alcohol (methanol) has been found by the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the TW Hydrae protoplanetary disc. …
2016.06.13
Lecture at the Japanese School of Buenos Aires
On May 20, Norikazu Mizuno, an associate professor at the NAOJ Chile Observatory, gave a lecture at the Japanese School of Buenos Aires, Argentina. More than …
2016.06.09
Black Hole Deluged by Cold Intergalactic 'Rain'
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has witnessed a never-before-seen cosmic weather event&mdash…
2016.06.02
ALMA Booth at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016
From May 22 through 26, the NAOJ Chile observatory exhibited the ALMA booth at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016, which was held at the international ex…
2016.05.26
NAOJ Chile Observatory Director's Lecture at the Japan-Chile Chamber of Commerce and Industry
On May 17, 2016, the Japan-Chile Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Camara Chileno Japanesa de Comercio e Indusria A.G.) held its monthly meeting and invited N…
2016.05.25
Footprints of Baby Planets in a Gas Disk
A new analysis of the ALMA data for a young star HL Tauri provides yet more firm evidence of baby planets around the star. Researchers uncovered two gaps in…
2016.05.20
Cometary Belt around Distant Multi-Planet System Hints at Hidden or Wandering Planets
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first high-resolution image of the cometary belt (a region analogous t…
2016.05.09
SOKENDAI Future Scientist Award Given to Kyoko Onishi
Kyoko Onishi, a student at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) who conducts research at the NAOJ Chile Observatory, won the SOKENDAI Futur…
2016.05.02
Miniature AOS Newly Exhibited
A miniature model of the ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS) has been newly added to the exhibition at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. The ALMA site in Chile is very far…
2016.04.27
ALMA Cycle 4 Town Meeting in Mitaka
On April 4, an ALMA Town Meeting was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. ALMA invited calls for proposals for Cycle 4, which will start from October this year. Th…
2016.04.21
Japanese ALMA Antenna Development Team Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
Five Japanese researchers and engineers received the 2015 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Te…
2016.04.14
Dwarf Dark Galaxy Hidden in ALMA Gravitational Lens Image
Subtle distortions hidden in ALMA’s stunning image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 are telltale signs that a dwarf dark galaxy is lurking in the halo o…
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A Young ALMA Researcher Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
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A young ALMA researcher, Dr. Takuma Izumi at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2024 Commendation for Science a…
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