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2018.08.30
Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimete…
2018.08.13
The next observation cycle of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Cycle 6, is the most demanded one to date, with proposals for more than …
2018.07.31
Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a form, or isotopologue of aluminum monofluoride (26AlF).…
2018.07.24
On July 5, 2018, at the Hitotshubashi Hall, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) held a ceremony to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fo…
2018.07.19
ALMA is approaching completion of its originally envisaged capabilities and, within the first five years of operations, the original fundamental science goals …
2018.06.27
Miraikan (the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) opened a new permanent exhibition which presents the technologies and observation results of …
2018.06.21
An international research team, led by Dr. Ruobing Dong at University of Arizona in USA and in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) …
2018.06.15
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star HD 163296. Usin…
2018.05.31
NAOJ ALMA exhibited a booth at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2018, which was held at Makuhari Messe from May 20 through 24, 2018 as has happened in previo…
2018.05.17
Astronomers detected a faint but definite signal of oxygen in a galaxy located 13.28 billion light-years away from us, through observations using the Atacama L…
2018.05.07
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has reached an important milestone with the publication of the 1000th peer-reviewed paper using ALMA da…
2018.04.27
The 2017 PASJ Excellent Paper Award was given to Misato Fukagawa (Nagoya University) et al. for the excellence of their published research paper. The award is …
2018.04.26
Peering deep into space — 90 percent of the way across the observable universe — astronomers have witnessed the beginnings of a gargantuan cosmic p…
2018.04.24
After the closing of the ALMA Cycle 6 Call for Proposals, the demand for using the most advanced radio telescope in the world set a new record, surpassing 180…
2018.03.23
Minami Takano, a senior at the Faculty of Knowledge Engineering, Tokyo City University won the Tokyo City University Alumni Association Award for her remarkabl…
2018.03.16
NAOJ Chile Observatory produced a short video introducing the development of the ACA Correlator “Mission to Process Huge Amounts of Data in Real Time Developme…
2018.03.13
The 2017 NAOJ Director General’s awards were given to the following two groups at the NAOJ Chile Observatory for their remarkable achievements at NAOJ. Resear…
2018.03.07
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filame…
2018.02.26
Space weather emitted by Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our sun, may make that system rather inhospitable to life after all. Using data from the Atacama…
2018.02.23
On February 4, Sunday, NAOJ Public Talk / the 23rd ALMA Public Talk was held in the International Conference Hall (Plaza Heisei) at the Tokyo International Exc…
An international team led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan succesfully detected the e…
On December 11, a lecture organized by the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern was held as part…
The preliminary design review for the new Data Transmission System (DTS) for the ALMA Telescope has been completed succ…
