2015.05.15
ALMA Discovers Proto Super Star Cluster -- a Cosmic 'Dinosaur Egg' About to Hatch
Globular clusters – dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars – are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in an…
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2015.05.08
ALMA Cycle 3 call for proposals attracts record number of applications
The ALMA Observatory’s Early Science Cycle 3 has attracted 1,582 proposals for observation time submitted by the international scientific community durin…
2015.04.22
New Video Released "ALMA Receiver Development -Receiver Mechanism-"
We are pleased to announce the release of a new video on the development of ALMA. In a radio telescope, radio waves from the universe are reflected by the ante…
2015.04.13
Complex Organic Molecules Discovered in Infant Star System: Hints that Prebiotic Chemistry Is Universal
For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a yo…
2015.04.07
Unprecedented views of lensed galaxy and asteroid Juno taken with ALMA
Astronomers obtained unprecedentedly sharp images of a distant galaxy SDP.81 and an asteroid Juno with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA…
2015.03.31
ALMA Disentangles Complex Birth of Giant Stars
Overview A research group led by Aya Higuchi, a researcher at Ibaraki University, conducted observations of the massive-star forming region IRAS 16547-4247 w…
2015.03.17
ALMA Opens For Public Visits
ALMA’s Operations Support Facility will open its doors to the public for the first time on 29 March 2015, offering members of the public a rare opportuni…
2015.03.13
Lunch Box for ALMA Staff Working at AOS
In ALMA, there are staff members working at a high-altitude site called Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 meters for the maintenance activities of observing …
2015.03.03
An Old-looking Galaxy in a Young Universe
One of the most distant galaxies ever observed has provided astronomers with the first detection of dust in such a remote star-forming system and tantalising e…
2015.02.26
ALMA Revealed Surprisingly Mild Environment around a Supermassive Black Hole
A research team led by Shuro Takano at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and Taku Nakajima at Nagoya University observed the spiral galaxy …
2015.02.16
Summer Camp at Santiago Japanese School
On January 22, 2015, the Santiago Japanese School held a regular summer camp and star watching party for children in the lower grades of elementary school (23 …
2015.02.05
ALMA Gains Broadband Connection with Global Science Community
ALMA’s remote location is a boon to astronomy but a telecommunication challenge for the astronomers who work there. Thanks to a newly installed broadband…
2015.01.16
Comet Lovejoy Photographed at ALMA OSF
Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) is now seen in the night sky. The comet, which was discovered in August 2014 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy, is reach…
2014.12.24
Antenna dance at ALMA
All of the movements of ALMA’s antennas since September 2009 — when the first one arrived at Chajnantor, at an altitude of 5,000 meters in Chile…
2014.12.15
ALMA detects Pluto-Size Objects Kicking-up Dust around Sun-Like Star
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) may have detected the dusty hallmarks of an entire family of Pluto-size objects swarm…
2014.12.12
Astronomers from around the world meet to share remarkable results from ALMA observations
Astronomers from around the world met in Japan to discuss the exciting scientific results from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio te…
2014.12.04
Astronomers Identify Gas Spirals as a Nursery of Twin Stars through ALMA Observation
Overview With the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation, astronomers led by Shigehisa Takakuwa, Associate Research Fellow at the In…
2014.11.27
Seeing into the Heart of Mira A and its Partner
Studying red giant stars tells astronomers about the future of the Sun — and about how previous generations of stars spread the elements needed for life …
2014.11.14
ALMA/ASTE/Mopra Users' Meeting
From October 27 through 29, ALMA/ASTE/Mopra Users’ Meeting was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus for three telescopes operated by the NAOJ Chile Observatory…
2014.11.06
Revolutionary ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis
Overview Astronomers’ dream has just come true. The new image from ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, reveals extraordinarily fine…
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2024 12.13
ALMA Reveals the Birthplace of a Planetary System: dust accumulation to form a new planet outside just-formed planets
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecti…
2024 10.8
Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found
This article is a revised version. Please check the original press release by the European South Observatory here. This…
2024 10.4
Professor Fukagawa Named to Forbes JAPAN’s "Women in Tech 30" 2024
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In the November 2024 issue of Forbes JAPAN, Professor Misato Fukagawa, who serves as the East Asia Operations Manager o…
