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2026.07.14
The preliminary design review of “Band 8v2,” a development project to upgrade the Band 8 receiver, one of the ten receiver units installed on ALMA, was held at…
2026.07.09
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered a stellar cradle of warm molecular gas surrounding a baby star in a …
2026.06.17
A remarkably bright galaxy affected by gravitational lensing, “Shadow Blaster,” was discovered through follow-up observations with several telescopes, includin…
2026.06.09
The 2026 Shoichiro Yoshida Memorial Nikon Astronomy Achievement Award, presented by the Foundation for Promotion of Astronomy, has been awarded to Hiroaki Imad…
2026.05.22
An international team of astronomers has discovered that chaotic turbulence, rather than orderly magnetic fields, is the primary force shaping the seeds of mas…
2026.04.22
An astronomer conducting research with ALMA has been honored with the 2026 Young Scientists’ Award by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science a…
2026.04.15
An international team led by Indrani Das of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), has unveiled, for the first time, how the infallin…
2026.04.07
An international research team using ALMA has discovered compelling evidence that winds from a young protostar are driven by magnetic forces originating in its…
2026.03.19
An international team captured an unprecedented view of gas streamers flowing into a forming high-mass star. Thanks to ALMA’s sharp vision, the team detected c…
2026.03.12
A University of Tokyo student has been honored with an award for her collaborative research paper based on ALMA observations.
2026.03.06
Astronomers have captured a complex network of cosmic gas in the central region of the Milky Way, in unprecedented area and detail. The rich dataset obtained w…
2026.02.25
The preliminary design review of Total Power GPU Spectrometer (TPGS) for the ALMA telescope has been successfully completed. TPGS is one of the major East Asia…
2026.01.13
Two students from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) have received awards for their collaborative research with the NAOJ ALMA receiver development …
2026.01.08
An international research team has conducted detailed observations of three “monster galaxies” in the early Universe using the ALMA and the JWST, revealing tha…
2026.01.06
Professor Kenichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has been selected for the 58th Research Grant (FY2025) in the Space and Earth Science category from the It…
2026.01.05
A research team led by a researcher at Nagoya University has discovered that a “monster galaxy” in the early Universe, 11.5 billion years ago, was a huge, rapi…
2025.12.10
In today’s Universe, stars like our Sun form within long, thread-like structures called filamentary molecular clouds. Yet, the conditions for star formation in…
2025.11.18
This news is based on the press release from Chalmers University of Technology.
Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of…
2025.11.10
NAOJ Director General Mamoru Doi (left) and KASI President Jang-Hyun Park (right) (credit: KASI). The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the…
2025.09.25
An international research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI and the National Astronomi…
The preliminary design review of “Band 8v2,” a development project to upgrade the Band 8 receiver, one of the ten recei…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered a stellar cradle of warm mol…
A remarkably bright galaxy affected by gravitational lensing, “Shadow Blaster,” was discovered through follow-up observ…
