2008.08.27
Installation of Back End
On August 27, the Back End system was installed in an ACA-12m antenna at the Operations Support Facility (OSF). The picture shows the staff members pleased wit…
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2008.08.27
On August 27, the Back End system was installed in an ACA-12m antenna at the Operations Support Facility (OSF). The picture shows the staff members pleased wit…
2008.08.23
NRO (Nobeyama Radio Observatory) held its 2008 Open Campus on August 23. Even though it was unfortunately raining, 2317 people visited this years Open Campus e…
2008.08.22
Using the ACA antenna #4, an electrical interface test was conducted between the antenna and a transporter (antenna carrier). This was the first time that a Ja…
2008.08.21
In the daytime of August 21, four ACA antennas were driven synchronously for the first time at the Operations Support Facility (OSF). It was very impressive to…
2008.08.16
On August 16, the 20th ALMA Public Lecture was held at the Kamo Planetarium in Kyoto, Japan. The lecture given by Seiichi Sakamoto, Professor at the Japan Aero…
2008.08.03
This picture shows the night sky over the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF). The antennas are usually illuminated at night for safety, but tonight I turne…
2008.07.28
This is an analysis result of the radio spectrum of CS molecular gases (rotational transition J=3-2, 146.969026 GHz) in a celestial object called Orion KL, whi…
2008.07.24
On a cloudless sunny day, I had a chance to see the famous Atacama beautiful star-filled skyEat the Operation Support Facility (OSF). At night, while a North A…
2008.07.23
Today it was calm and windless in contrast to a sand storm with a wind velocity of 20m/s or higher on the previous day. Clouds were growing thick from the afte…
2008.07.03
On July 3, an international workshop was held in honor of Professor Mutsumi Ishitukas 50 years of research in Peru at the Sycaya Astronomical Radio Observatory…
2008.06.14
On June 14, the Suginami Science Center held an event titled Astronomical Evening -The Universe Explored by Radio Telescope-E In the event, Seiichi Sakamoto, P…
2008.06.02
As winter is coming in Chile, mountains around Santiago have been capped with snow. In spite of this typical winter scenery, I feel something strange because o…
2008.05.31
From May 25 through 30, the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2008 was held in the international exhibition hall at Makuhari Messe, and NAOJ set up a booth featur…
2008.05.30
Currently there are four antennas at the Operations Support Facility (OSF). This picture shows the scenery seen from the window of the control room in a contai…
2008.05.29
Licancabur Volcano (5916 m) is a mountain whose shape is similar to Mt.Fuji. At around 8 oclock in the morning, I found the volcano wearing a hat of lenticular…
2008.05.29
The sky over the Operations Support Facility (OSF) was covered by sheep clouds (altocumulus cloud), as if small cotton pieces were placed in rows. Since there …
2008.05.15
A streak of cloud, shaped something like French bread, appeared in the sky over the Operations Support Facility (OSF). A cloud shaped like this is called Kelvi…
2008.05.14
These are radio images of the sun, which were obtained using the first ACA 12-m antenna manufactured by Japan. In these images, white color indicates strong in…
2008.05.09
This picture was taken at the antenna assembly area of ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF). These four antennas are ACA 12-m antennas designed by the Nation…
2008.04.15
The first four 12-m antennas of ALMA-Japan constructed at the ALMA Operations Support Facility in Chile.
In April 2025, the ALMA Board approved the development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array (*) designed and deve…
A research team led by Ayumu Shoshi of Kyushu University and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysic…
On March 21, 2025, NAOJ participated in the public event "Open Day 2025" held at the Joint ALMA Observatory in Santiago…