2005.11.02
ALMA Board in Santiago
The ALMA Board meeting was held in Santiago on November 1 and 2 with the participation of Norio Kaifu (NAOJ Director General), Masato Ishiguro (ALMA-J project …
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2005.11.02
The ALMA Board meeting was held in Santiago on November 1 and 2 with the participation of Norio Kaifu (NAOJ Director General), Masato Ishiguro (ALMA-J project …
2005.10.31
At the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF), a special ambulance was deployed in a healthcare room, and a concrete plant was completed for the construction o…
2005.10.30
The construction of the Technical Building has been started at the ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS) at an altitude of 5000 m above sea level. The picture shows…
2005.10.22
An astronomical lecture presentation tiled “New picture of the universe explored by ALMA, gigantic radio telescope in the Andes” (hosted by Nagano …
2005.10.16
The 6th ALMA public lecture titled “The birth and death of the stars explored by ALMA” (hosted by NAOJ and Okayama University of Science, Academic …
2005.10.15
About 1700 people visited Mitaka campus on the special open day. At the ALMA booth, we presented a demonstration of remote control of the 45 cm telescope locat…
2005.10.08
Astronomical Society of Japan held its biannual autumn conference 2005 at Sapporo Convention Center from October 6 to 8. There were 34 ALMA-related presentatio…
2005.10.02
ALMA Science Advisory Committee (ASAC) meeting was held in Santiago on October 1 and 2. From Japan, six people attended the meeting including Yasuo Fukui (Nago…
2005.09.22
We sometimes see a domesticated llama (a type of the camels) around San Pedro de Atacama, the closest village from the ALMA construction site. The picture show…
2005.09.18
September 18th is the independence day of Chile, and September 19th is the Armed Forces Day. This week is called “Diesiocho” (meaning “18R…
2005.09.15
It is risky to clean the windows of Santiago Office on 18th floor of 21-story building. This picture shows a window cleaner going down from the upper floor wit…
2005.09.12
Spring is coming and no more smog in Santiago. Looking down outside the window, you can see many high rises under construction. The picture shows Cordillera de…
2005.09.08
Signing ceremony was held for the agreement between National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan and Academia Sinica (AS) of Taiwan for collaboratio…
2005.08.31
This is a picture taken at the plenary meeting of ALMA project members. Tetsuo Hasegawa, ALMA-J Project Manager, is explaining the purpose of the meeting at th…
2005.08.20
We had a special open day at Nobeyama Radio Observatory, and as many as 2572 people visited us. As part of the event, ALMA-J Project Office gave brief lectures…
2005.08.12
Lectures were given to 42 high school students as part of the 2005 summer seminar of “Yume no Tamago Juku” Hida Academy (the school to discover you…
2005.08.01
New Advanced Technology Center, ATC is established by integrating the former Advanced Technology Center and the receiver development group of ALMA. With its pr…
2005.07.29
Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting of International Astronomical Union was held in Bali, Indonesia. The picture shows Masato Ishiguro, Director of ALMA-J Project Of…
2005.07.16
Construction site at an altitude of 5000 m above sea level was hit by very strong wind. As the wind broke a horn of one of the antennas for radio seeing monito…
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…