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2017.10.02
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) selected as IEICE Milestone the high-sensitivity radio telescope and the supercom…
2017.09.28
An image of clouds accelerating due to gravitational scattering caused by the intermediate-mass black hole. Credit: Tomoharu Oka (Keio University) Professor To…
2017.09.21
Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae. These observa…
2017.09.14
“It’s really fantastic, because there are no specialized teachers here who can teach you about the Universe like astronomers,” celebrates Arlette Olguín, stude…
2017.09.11
Astronomers found that active star formation upswells galaxies, like yeast helps bread rise. Using three powerful telescopes on the ground and in orbit, they o…
2017.09.07
The NAOJ Chile Observatory annually participates in the Nobeyama Open campus events and presents exhibitions of the ALMA and ASTE telescopes in Chile. This ye…
2017.08.31
ALMA has been used to detect turbulent reservoirs of cold gas surrounding distant starburst galaxies. By detecting CH+ for the first time in the distant Univer…
2017.08.29
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) provides annual summer astronomy programs for kids aged from 6 to 15. This year’s event was a three-day p…
2017.08.21
On July 29, Yoshinobu Hiraishi, who was appointed as Ambassador of Japan to Chile this year, visited the ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS) with his wife and the…
2017.08.17
After notifying the over 1100 astronomers who were granted observation time with ALMA, a process that had taken nearly five months is finally ending. The ALMA …
2017.08.15
Professor Takaaki Kajita, Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) at the University of Tokyo, is one of the two winners of the 2015 Nobel Priz…
2017.08.02
Astronomers observed a galaxy cluster 9.4 billion light-years away using the ALMA radio telescope array and found evidence that hot gas strips away the cold ga…
2017.07.29
Saturn’s frigid moon Titan has a curious atmosphere. In addition to a hazy mixture of nitrogen and hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, Titan’s atmosphere als…
2017.07.21
The Santiago Japanese School held its annual TANABATA lecture on July 6, 2017. The speaker this year was Seiichi Sakamoto, a professor at the NAOJ Chile Obser…
2017.07.10
After a competitive selection process that began in January 2017, the international governing board of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) …
2017.07.05
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has used the Atacama Large …
2017.07.01
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers obtained a critical clue to an underlying problem: how are widely separated twin sta…
2017.06.15
ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life. This i…
2017.06.13
An international research team led by a Japanese astronomer has determined how the enigmatic gas flow from a massive baby star is launched. The team used the A…
2017.06.09
Companion Star Provides Chilling Power of ‘Coldest Object in the Universe’
Dr. Akimasa Kataoka at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the M…
Takafumi Tsukui at the Australian National University (currently Tohoku University) received Inoue Research Award for Y…
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
