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…
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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…
2023.10.06
Astronomers Discover First Step Toward Planet Formation
An international research team led by Project Assistant Professor Satoshi Ohashi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has conducted high-re…
2023.09.25
Sho Masui Receives Electronics Society Student Award for Presentation Related to ALMA Development
Sho Masui, a project researcher fellow at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), received the Electronics Society Student Award at the 2023 Society Conference o…
2023.09.20
The Strongest Tag Team of the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA Captures the Core of the Most Distant Galaxy Protocluster
An international research team led by Assistant Professor Takuya Hashimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Researcher Javier Álvarez-Márquez (El Centro de…
2023.09.15
Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Multiple Ways Supermassive Black Holes Affect Host Galaxy
Using the ALMA telescope array, an international research team led by Toshiki Saito (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) and Taku Nakajima (Nagoya Univ…
2023.09.04
ALMA Detects Small-scale Fluctuations in Dark Matter Distribution:An important Step towards Understanding the Nature of Dark Matter
A research team led by Professor Kaiki Taro Inoue at Kindai University (Osaka, Japan) has discovered fluctuations in dark matter distribution in the Universe o…
2023.08.14
New ALMA Receivers that will probe Our Cosmic Origins Successfully tested
An international team of astronomers and engineers at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first measurements using new receiv…
2023.08.04
Triple Baby Stars Reach Out Three Arms to Feed with Materials
An international research team led by Jeong-Eun Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to …
2023.07.26
New Image Reveals Secrets of Planet Birth
A spectacular new image released by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using ESO’s Very Large…
2023.07.14
Stellar Cradles and Graves Seen in Farthest Galaxy Ever
A team of astronomers led by Professor Yoichi Tamura of Nagoya University has accomplished a remarkable feat by capturing a young galaxy from a period just 600…
2023.07.04
Baby Star Growing Fast through A 3-Layer Pancake-like Protostellar Disk
Protostellar disks play a crucial role in forming extrasolar systems, as they not only facilitate the growth of central protostars into mature stars, but also …
2023.06.28
ALMA Digs Deeper into the Mystery of Planet Formation
An international research team led by Nagayoshi Ohashi at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan) used the Atacama Large Millim…
2023.06.20
Observations of High-Mass Star Seeds Defy Models
The team has revealed an unprecedented number of stellar seeds concealed within environments where high-mass stars (stars with masses eight times more than the…
2023.06.12
NINS President and NAOJ Director General Visit the ALMA Site
During their recent visit to Chile, NINS President Maki Kawai and NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta visited the ALMA site on May 31st, together with a Japanes…
2023.06.07
NINS President Maki Kawai and NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta Visit Dignitaries in Chile
From left to right: NINS President Kawai, Ambassador Julio Bravo, and NAOJ Director General Tsuneta (Photo: Goro Watanabe/NINS) From May 29 to June 2, 2023 (lo…
2023.05.30
Ceremony Held in Tokyo to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Full-scale Operations of the ALMA Telescope
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the ALMA telescope, which began full-scale operations in March 2013. The ALMA telescope was jointly constructed and is …
2023.05.12
Astronomers image for the First Time a Black Hole’s Shadow together with a Powerful Jet
For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful je…
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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have obtained the most detailed three-dimens…
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