2025.11.10
NAOJ and KASI Sign ALMA Collaboration MoU Amendment
NAOJ Director General Mamoru Doi (left) and KASI President Jang-Hyun Park (right) (credit: KASI). The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the…
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2025.09.25
Winding Motion of Planet-Forming Spirals Captured on Video for the First Time
An international research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI and the National Astronomi…
2025.08.08
The Universe’s Secret Harvest: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”
Super high-resolution ALMA and JWST observations unveil unexpected substructure and underlying gas dynamics in a faint, infant galaxy, offering fresh clues to …
2025.08.05
Discovery of Protoplanetary Disk Caught in Explosion Driven by Stellar Jet
A research team led by Masataka Aizawa of Ibaraki University studied a protoplanetary disk around the young star WSB 52 and its surrounding structures using AL…
2025.06.26
Development of Total Power GPU Spectrometer was approved by ALMA Board
In April 2025, the ALMA Board approved the development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array (*) designed and developed by Japan for the ALMA telescope. T…
2025.06.24
New Super-resolution Imaging Reveals the First Step of Planet Formation after Star Birth
A research team led by Ayumu Shoshi of Kyushu University and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) revealed protoplanetary disks …
2025.06.03
Joint ALMA Observatory Open Day 2025
On March 21, 2025, NAOJ participated in the public event "Open Day 2025" held at the Joint ALMA Observatory in Santiago, Chile.
2025.05.27
ALMA Booth at Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025
NAOJ ALMA is exhibiting a booth at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting every year. This year’s event was held from May 25 through 30. The booth is shared…
2025.05.22
A Fierce Storm in a Giant Barred Spiral Galaxy 11 Billion Years Ago
A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe with ALMA…
2025.04.30
exoALMA Gives Astronomers a New Look at How Planets are Formed: Beyond Planet Hunting, This Survey will Reveal the Mechanics behind Planet Forming Discs
A team of international astronomers have embarked on an exciting new project to hunt for planets forming around young stars. The exoALMA project, using the pow…
2025.04.17
Akimasa Kataoka Received the Young Scientists’ Award by MEXT
Dr. Akimasa Kataoka at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, S…
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.
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…
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2026 9.8
Watching a Massive Binary Assemble in Real Time
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have obtained the most detailed three-dimens…
2026 7.29
Student Honored for Collaborative Research with ALMA Receiver Development Team
A student from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) have received an award for his collaborative research wit…
2026 7.14
ALMA Band 8 Receiver Upgrade Successfully Passed the Preliminary Design Review
The preliminary design review of “Band 8v2,” a development project to upgrade the Band 8 receiver, one of the ten recei…
