We find hardly any animals in the daytime at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) of ALMA which extends over the area of about 1 km2 in the midst of deserts at 2900 m asl. But, in the nighttime, we sometimes hear a little sound from the shadows. The picture shows a family of mice found at the foot of the stairs outside the office container in the midnight. He was scared stiff with a flare of flashlight. ALMA is being constructed in consideration of the surrounding environment to protect the habitat of these little neighbors.
NEW ARTICLES
2025 3.31
ACA Total Power Array Spectrometer Development Team Receives NAOJ Director General’s Award
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
2025 3.10
Discovery of ‘Hot Gas’ near a Supermassive Black Hole 12.9 Billion Years Ago: New Possibilities for Finding Hidden Black Holes in the Early Universe
An international research team led by Professor Ken-ichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has made a groundbreaking d…
2025 2.12
Researchers find dark matter dominating in early universe galaxies
This article is based on the press release issued by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Univers…