2014.08.06
ALMA Pinpoints Pluto to Help Guide NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are making high-precision measurements of Pluto’s location and orbit around the…
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2014.08.06
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are making high-precision measurements of Pluto’s location and orbit around the…
2014.07.31
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas disks around the two young stars in t…
2014.07.24
On June 17 and 18, the ASTE/ALMA Development Workshop 2014 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. A total of 62 researchers from 6 nations/regions attended the wo…
2014.07.15
On July 7, the Santiago Japanese School (with 44 students) held an annual lecture to celebrate TANABATA Festival, a Japanese star festival originating from the…
2014.07.03
Overview Dynamical interaction of star-forming gas was found in a star-forming region by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (…
2014.06.20
From May 7 through 16, the East Asia ALMA Regional Center (EA ARC) held a preparatory meeting for ALMA Early Science Observations Cycle 2, which started from J…
2014.06.16
The final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project has been taken up to the high-level site at the ALMA Observatory, 5.000 m…
2014.06.12
Abstract For the first time, a group of Japanese researchers detected radio emission from molecular gas in galaxies hosting gamma ray bursts (GRBs), the brig…
2014.06.11
The largest astronomical observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has been included in the spectacular 360° panor…
2014.05.07
The scientific assessment of the 1381 science proposals submitted for ALMA Early Science Cycle 2 has been completed. Seventy-eight science assessors from all o…
2014.04.11
We are pleased to announce the release of a new film documenting the manufacturing process of the Japanese ALMA antenna. This film shows how the telescope moun…
2014.03.19
From March 10 through 14, an international meeting on the development of the data analysis pipeline for the ALMA Telescope was held at the ALMA Building in NAO…
2014.03.10
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in northern Chile have today announced the discovery of an unexpected clump…
2014.03.03
On February 18, the NAOJ Advanced Technology Center shipped out the last seven ALMA Band 10 receivers to Chile. This marks the completion of delivery of a tota…
2014.02.13
Written by Masaaki Hiramatsu, the Education and Public Outreach Officer at NAOJ Chile Observatory Stars are formed by the contraction of interstellar gas an…
2014.02.13
A star is formed by gravitational contraction of interstellar gas (mostly H2) and dust. Even after the birth of a protostar (a baby star), the gas and dust …
2014.02.03
On January 23, the Santiago Japanese School (with 35 students) held a two-day summer camp in Santiago, Chile. About 20 students in the first to fourth grades s…
2014.01.17
Abstract A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained a firm evidence of formation of a giant planetary system around a young star by the observations with th…
2014.01.10
Planets form in disks around their host protostar, but when and how disks form is still an unanswered question. ALMA observations by a team of astronomers led …
2014.01.07
Standing on the ALMA high site, we are overwhelmed by a vast expanse of the plateau of the Atacama Desert. Some people have impressions as if they are on Mars …
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…