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2016.05.20
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first high-resolution image of the cometary belt (a region analogous t…
2016.05.09
Kyoko Onishi, a student at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) who conducts research at the NAOJ Chile Observatory, won the SOKENDAI Futur…
2016.05.02
A miniature model of the ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS) has been newly added to the exhibition at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. The ALMA site in Chile is very far…
2016.04.27
On April 4, an ALMA Town Meeting was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. ALMA invited calls for proposals for Cycle 4, which will start from October this year. Th…
2016.04.21
Five Japanese researchers and engineers received the 2015 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Te…
2016.04.14
Subtle distortions hidden in ALMA’s stunning image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 are telltale signs that a dwarf dark galaxy is lurking in the halo o…
2016.03.31
ALMA’s Best Image Yet of a Protoplanetary Disk The disks of dust and gas that surround young stars are the formation sites of planets. New images from…
2016.03.10
A research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has detected the faintest millimeter-wave source ever observed. By accumulatin…
2016.03.03
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first direct observations delineating the gas disk around a baby sta…
2016.02.23
Astronomers have used the ALMA and IRAM telescopes to make the first direct measurement of the temperature of the large dust grains in the outer parts of a pl…
2016.02.18
The most luminous galaxy in the Universe -a so-called obscured quasar 12.4 billion light-years away – is so violently turbulent that it may eventually je…
2016.01.15
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found telltale differences between the gaps in the gas and the dust in discs aro…
2016.01.13
Currently 15 graduate students are studying at the ALMA building in the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. They come from various universities such as the Graduate University…
2015.12.25
A new video on the ALMA development was released. This new version features the receiver which is a component to receive radio waves from target objects inside…
2015.12.18
On December 15, 2015, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan (NINS), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the National Science Foundation…
2015.12.07
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered the most tenuous molecular gas ever observed. They detected the abs…
2015.12.05
Astronomers discovered a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The you…
2015.11.27
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that a dim, cool dwarf star is generating a surprisingly powerful mag…
2015.11.24
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) continues to expand its power and capabilities by linking with other millimeter-wavelength telescopes i…
2015.11.12
On October 23 and 24, Mitaka Open House Day was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. The NAOJ Chile Observatory gave presentations of ALMA, including mini-lectures…
This article is a revised version. Please check the original press release by the European South Observatory here. This…
In the November 2024 issue of Forbes JAPAN, Professor Misato Fukagawa, who serves as the East Asia Operations Manager o…
This article is based on the press release issued by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on September 4, 2024. Ple…
