2025.04.15
Takafumi Tsukui Received Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
Takafumi Tsukui at the Australian National University (currently Tohoku University) received Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists for fiscal year 2024.
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2025.03.31
ACA Total Power Array Spectrometer Development Team Receives NAOJ Director General’s Award
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development Category for fiscal year 2024.
2025.03.10
Discovery of ‘Hot Gas’ near a Supermassive Black Hole 12.9 Billion Years Ago: New Possibilities for Finding Hidden Black Holes in the Early Universe
An international research team led by Professor Ken-ichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has made a groundbreaking discovery using the ALMA telescope. The t…
2025.02.12
Researchers find Dark Matter Dominating in Early Universe Galaxies
This article is based on the press release issued by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI) and the Kavli Instit…
2025.02.06
Magnetic Field in Planet Formation has been Successfully Observed
Based on ALMA multi-band observations of dust polarization, the magnetic field structure in a protoplanetary disk has been measured for the first time. A resea…
2025.01.10
Unveiling the Properties of a Primeval Galaxy from 13.4 Billion Years Ago
An international team led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan succesfully detected the emission of several atomic transitions fr…
2025.01.07
Yuhito Shibaike Speaks on the Frontiers of Planet Formation Research – Commemorating 160th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Switzerland
On December 11, a lecture organized by the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern was held as part of the events commemorating the 160th a…
2024.12.26
ALMA’s New Data Transmission System Passes Preliminary Design Review
The preliminary design review for the new Data Transmission System (DTS) for the ALMA Telescope has been completed successfully, allowing the development proje…
2024.12.24
A Baby Star in Action: B335 Offers a Natural Laboratory for Astrochemistry
Scientists have taken an unprecedented step forward in understanding the chemical processes occurring as new stars form, thanks to observations of the variable…
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 detecting a high concentration of dust grains, …
2024.10.08
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 image shows the galaxy REBELS-25 as see…
2024.10.04
Professor Fukagawa Named to Forbes JAPAN’s "Women in Tech 30" 2024
In the November 2024 issue of Forbes JAPAN, Professor Misato Fukagawa, who serves as the East Asia Operations Manager of ALMA, has been named as one of the …
2024.10.03
ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in Planet-Forming Disk
This article is based on the press release issued by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on September 4, 2024. Please see https://public.nrao.edu/news/alm…
2024.09.30
United Nations Secretary-General Visits ALMA
ALMA received a visit from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who explored the array site high in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The antenna maintenance group, a …
2024.09.30
Ms. Kaho Morii Receives the 19th L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Japan Fellowship Award
The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Japan Fellowship Award Program Ceremony (Credit: Nihon L’Oréal K. K.) Ms. Kaho Morii, a third-year doctoral stude…
2024.09.17
Fostering East Asian Collaboration: ALMA Science and Data Analysis Workshops 2024
The East Asian ALMA Science Workshop (July 22–24) and Data Analysis Workshop (July 25–26) for 2024 took place at the Seoul National University. The annual scie…
2024.08.30
Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
Observations to date have discovered a number of supermassive black holes with masses exceeding a billion times that of the Sun in the early Universe, when the…
2024.08.21
Professor Mizuno to Receive the Foreign Minister's Commendation
Dr. Norikazu Mizuno, Deputy Director of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) Chile Observatory and Professor in the ALMA Project, has been sel…
2024.07.10
Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Chile Visits NAOJ
On June 4, 2024, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Her Excellency Mrs. Gloria de la Fuente Gonzalez, visited NAOJ Mitaka Campus. Undersecretary de la…
2024.06.27
NAOJ Director General DOI Mamoru Visit Dignitaries in Chile
From left to right: Mr. SHIONOYA Ryu, Chair of the Japan-Chile Friendship Parliamentary League; Minister Alberto van Klaveren of the Chilean Ministry of Foreig…
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2026 3.12
Student Honored for Research with ALMA
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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
Astronomers have captured a complex network of cosmic gas in the central region of the Milky Way, in unprecedented area…
2026 2.25
ALMA Total Power GPU Spectrometer Passes Preliminary Design Review
The preliminary design review of Total Power GPU Spectrometer (TPGS) for the ALMA telescope has been successfully compl…
