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2013.10.24
An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, a second-year master’s student of science at the University of Tokyo, and Kotaro Kohno, a professor…
2013.10.21
On October 18 and 19, the NAOJ Open House Day 2013 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus. This year’s event featured the ALMA Telescope, which started full …
2013.10.16
Two international teams of astronomers have used the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to focus on jets from the huge black hole…
2013.10.09
From September 10 through 12, the Astronomical Society of Japan (ASJ) held its annual fall meeting at Tohoku University (Kawauchi campus). The East Asian ALMA …
2013.10.04
A large hot molecular cloud around a very young star was discovered by ALMA. This hot cloud is about ten times larger than those found around typical solar-m…
2013.10.03
The final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project has just been handed over to the ALMA Observatory. The 12-meter-diameter …
2013.10.01
On October 1, the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) announced that the Morita Array, a telescope array developed by Japan for ALMA, was selected for &#…
2013.09.17
On September 5, President of CONICYT (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica de Chile: National Commission for Scient…
2013.09.09
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is pleased to announce that the process to restore full operational conditions will start on Monday Sep…
2013.09.02
ALMA opens another window to the universe in the 500 GHz frequency band. Astronomers successfully synthesized the distribution of atomic carbon around a planet…
2013.08.26
On August 24, Nobeyama Open Campus 2013 was held at the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) in Nagano prefecture, Japan. Although bad weather was expected fr…
2013.08.21
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a new-born star. …
2013.08.02
On July 22, the IAU Minor Planet Center announced that the asteroid 1995 WG5 was named “Kohichiro” in honor of the late Koh-Ichiro Morita, a profes…
2013.07.25
The cosmic fireworks that characterize a starburst galaxy can abruptly fizzle out after only a relatively brief period of star formation, and astronomers want …
2013.07.19
From July 8 to 9, East Asia ALMA held a two-day workshop titled “EA ALMA Development Workshop” at the NAOJ Mitaka campus. The workshop was attended…
2013.07.19
The sight of a snowfall can thrill children, but the first-ever snow line seen around a distant star gives astronomers an even greater thrill because of what i…
2013.07.09
On July 4, the Santiago Japanese School (with 35 students) held a lecture to celebrate TANABATA Festival, a Japanese star festival originating from the Chinese…
2013.06.27
ALMA telescope successfully captured its first radio image with Band 4 receiver developed by Japan in an ALMA test observation conducted in January 2013. The t…
2013.06.19
We released a new article of Bienvenido a ALMA, a column series featuring different NAOJ ALMA staff members each time. “Bienvenido a ALMA!” 16. &#…
2013.06.07
Astronomers using the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have imaged a region around a young star where dust particles can grow by clump…
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecti…
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…
