2018.07.31
Pair of Colliding Stars Spill Radioactive Molecules into Space
Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a form, or isotopologue of aluminum monofluoride (26AlF).…
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2018.07.24
The 1st NAOJ Young Researchers Award Given to Associate Professor Shin'ichiro Asayama at the NAOJ Chile Observatory
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 Development Roadmap has been published
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
ALMA Permanent Exhibition Opened at Miraikan
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
Exciting Structures Discovered in a Young Protoplanetary Disk Lend Strong Support to Planet Formation in the Disk
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
ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star
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
ALMA Booth at Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2018
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
ALMA Finds Oxygen 13.28 Billion Light-Years Away - Most Distant Oxygen Indicates Mature Nature of a Young Galaxy
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
ALMA Reaches 1000 Published Papers
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
PASJ Excellent Paper Award Given to Research Work based on ALMA Data
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
Astronomers Witness Galaxy Megamerger: Cosmic pileup forging galaxy cluster in the early universe
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
ALMA Continues to Break Records in Demand
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 Receives Tokyo City University Alumni Association Award
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
ACA Correlator Development Video Released
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
NAOJ Director General’s Awards Given to Two Research Groups at NAOJ Chile Observatory
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
ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery
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
Powerful Flare from Star Proxima Centauri Detected with ALMA - Puts habitability of nearby system into question
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
NAOJ Public Talk / 23rd ALMA Public Talk
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…
2018.02.20
No relation between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy!? - The co-evolution mystery deepened by a new ALMA observation
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe an active galaxy with a strong ionized gas outflow from the galactic center, a team le…
2018.02.14
Rotating Dusty Gaseous Donut around an Active Supermassive Black Hole
High resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black…
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