2017.03.03

Tags: ALMA Discoveries ALMA Visuals Cosmic Mysteries

An international team of astronomers, led by Hyosun Kim in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has found a way of deriving…

2017.02.27

Tags: Events ALMA Topics

From February 21 through 22, 2017, the Japan Radio Astronomy Forum (JRAF) Symposium FY2016 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus. More than 80 participants atten…

2017.02.15

Tags: ALMA Discoveries Cosmic Mysteries

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive black hole and the gal…

2017.02.13

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On January 26, NAOJ Chile Observatory staff members visited a summer camp held by Santiago Japanese School to give a lecture about the universe and astronomic…

2017.02.08

Tags: ALMA Discoveries Press Releases Cosmic Mysteries

One of the big puzzles in astrophysics is how stars like the sun manage to form from collapsing molecular clouds in star-forming regions of the universe. The…

2017.01.18

Tags: ALMA Discoveries ALMA Visuals

New images taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal surprising details of the Sun, including the dark, contorted center of an …