NAOJ ALMA is exhibiting a booth at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting every year. This year’s event was held from May 25 through 30. The booth is shared with the NAOJ TMT project office which is an international project like ALMA to construct a 30-m optical telescope. At the booth, the ALMA staff presents the following three major scientific results over the past decade: new insights into the formation of planetary systems, detection of various complex organic molecules around young stars, and discovery of a signal of oxygen in a galaxy located over 13 billion light-years away from us. The importance of significant enhancements of the telescope capabilities (ALMA2 project started in 2023) is also highlighted.
Many students visited the NAOJ ALMA/TMT booth and gave good questions to the staff. They seemed to be interested in joining scientific research activities by using telescope systems like ALMA in the future.