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 …
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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…
2024.06.07
ALMA Booth at Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2024
NAOJ ALMA has exhibited a booth at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting every year. This year’s event was held from May 26 through 31. The booth was…
2024.04.22
A Young ALMA Researcher Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
A young ALMA researcher, Dr. Takuma Izumi at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2024 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Educati…
2024.04.11
Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'Sneezes' Tell us How You Are
Astronomers have discovered the remnants of powerful ‘sneezes’ expelling gas, dust, and electromagnetic energy around stars in the process of forming. The team…
2024.03.28
A Glimpse by Molecules : a Production Line Inside a Busy Star Factory in a Starburst Galaxy
An international research team led by Sergio Martín of the European Southern Observatory/Joint ALMA Observatory, Nanase Harada of the National Astronomical Obs…
2024.02.15
In Commemoration of ALMA's 10th Anniversary, Young Astronomers Visit the ALMA Site
ALMA is celebrating 10 years of full-scale operation in 2023. In December 2023, an international conference was held in Puerto Varas, Chile, to take a look bac…
2024.02.01
Gas on the Run :ALMA Spots the Shadow of a Molecular Outflow from a Quasar when the Universe was less than one Billion Years Old
Theoretical predictions have been confirmed with the discovery of an outflow of molecular gas from a quasar when the Universe was less than a billion years old.
2024.01.25
M87* One Year Later: Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow
This article is based on the press release issued by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration and others on January 18, 2024. Detailed Article M87* One …
2023.12.22
A Dancing Ancient Galactic Disk at a Peak of Star Formation
This article is based on the press release issued by the Australian National University and others on December 22, 2023. Please see https://reporter.anu.edu.au…
2023.12.04
NAOJ Director General and NAOJ ALMA Project Director visit University of Chile
NAOJ has recently signed an agreement with University of Chile / UNTEC (Foundation for Technological Transfer) for the production of hardware components for th…
2023.11.21
The ALMA Board shows its gratitude to NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta
The ALMA Board held its November 2023 meeting on November 15-17, 2023, at the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) Santiago Central Office (SCO). This was the last mee…
2023.11.15
ALMA Achieves Highest Resolution Yet :With a Combination of ALMA’s Highest Frequency Band 10 Receivers and an Array Configuration with a Baseline Length of up to 16 km
ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) has achieved its highest resolution since it began operation. An international team for extension of optimi…
2023.11.14
New US & Japan Partnership Will Make the World’s Most Powerful Telescope Even More Sensitive
The National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) are joining efforts to …
2023.11.03
Supermassive Black Hole Feeding and Feedback are Finally Resolved at the Center of an Active Galaxy
An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has achieved a groundbreaking mil…
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2026 6.17
Toward a New Era of Astronomy: A New Step in Multi-Messenger Astronomy at Cosmological Distances - Gravitational Lensing Reveals a Connection Between Intense Star Formation 11 Billion Years Ago and High-Energy Neutrinos -
A remarkably bright galaxy affected by gravitational lensing, “Shadow Blaster,” was discovered through follow-up observ…
2026 6.9
Hiroaki Imada Receives the 2026 Shoichiro Yoshida Memorial Nikon Astronomy Achievement Award
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Cosmic Chaos Beats Magnetism in the Birth of Massive Star Clusters
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