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…
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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…
2018.01.26
ALMA/45m/ASTE Users Meeting 2017
From December 26 through 27, 2017, the two-day ALMA/45m/ASTE Users Meeting was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus. Active discussions were made among approximately…
2018.01.23
ALMA Captured Betelgeuse
ALMA captured this image of the bright star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion at an ultra-high resolution which exceeds 80000/20 vision in terms of eyesigh…
2018.01.19
Development of New Spectrometer for Morita Array Approved by ALMA Board
In November 2017, the ALMA Board approved the development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array designed and developed by Japan for the ALMA telescope. Th…
2017.12.07
Massive Primordial Galaxies Found Swimming in Vast Ocean of Dark Matter
Astronomers expect that the first galaxies, those that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, would share many similarities with some of t…
2017.11.27
Alvaro Gonzalez Wins “IEEE RADIO 2017 Young Scientist Award”
In September 2017, Alvaro Gonzalez, an assistant professor at the NAOJ Chile Observatory, won the Young Scientist Award at the IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of t…
2017.11.10
Winds blowing off a dying star
Stars like our Sun eject large amounts of gas and dust into space, containing various elements and compounds. Asymptotic giant branch — AGB — phase…
2017.11.06
Forest of Molecular Signals in Star Forming Galaxy
Astronomers found a rich molecular reservoir in the heart of an active star-forming galaxy with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Among …
2017.10.27
Mitaka Open House Day 2017
From October 13 through 14, Mitaka Open House Day was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. This is an annual event of NAOJ to present the latest astronomical achiev…
2017.10.24
Crescent and Perfect Rings Signal Formation of Planet
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took an impressive image of V1247 Orionis, a young, hot star surrounded by a dynamic ring of gas and dust, …
2017.10.18
ALMA receives award for its contribution to the progress of Chile
The prestigious Chilean business organization ICARE (Instituto Chileno de Administración Racional de Empresas) chose the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
2017.10.12
Eiji Akiyama Awarded “Best Researcher 2016” by the Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
Eiji Akiyama, a specially-appointed assistant professor at the NAOJ Chile Observatory, received the “Best Researcher 2016” from the Japanese Society for Planet…
2017.10.03
Astronomers Discover Traces of Methyl Chloride around Infant Stars and Nearby Comet - Dashing Hopes Molecule Could Point to Life on Other Planets
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected the faint molecular fingerprint of methyl chloride – a chemical commonl…
2017.10.02
High-Sensitivity Radio Telescope and Supercomputer for Astronomy Selected as IEICE Milestone
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) selected as IEICE Milestone the high-sensitivity radio telescope and the supercom…
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A University of Tokyo student has been honored with an award for her collaborative research paper based on ALMA observa…
2026 3.6
Largest image of its kind shows hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way
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