2022.03.23
First light with the new spectrometer for the Atacama Compact Array
On February 22, 2022, the newly developed spectrometer for the Total Power Array of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA), also known as Morita Array, has successful…
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2022.03.02
ALMA detects nitrogen and oxygen radio waves emitted by a galaxy 12.9 billion years ago
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully detected radio waves emitted by nitrogen and oxygen from a galaxy that existed 12.9 billio…
2022.02.10
Enhancement and Future Development of ALMA for the 2020s and 2030s
In 2021, ALMA celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Early Science operations. During this time, the telescope has produced many achievements on a variety of s…
2022.01.13
Stars’ secret embraces revealed by ALMA
Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so close that one engulfs the other - with far-reaching consequences. When a team of astr…
2021.12.20
Seiji Fujimoto at University of Copenhagen Receives Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
Seiji Fujimoto, a DAWN fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute, the University of Copenhagen, received Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists for fiscal 2021.
2021.12.02
Stellar Cocoon with Organic Molecules at the Edge of our Galaxy
For the first time, astronomers have detected a newborn star and the surrounding cocoon of complex organic molecules at the edge of our Galaxy, which is known …
2021.11.15
Astronomers make most distant detection yet of fluorine in star-forming galaxy
A new discovery is shedding light on how fluorine — an element found in our bones and teeth as fluoride — is forged in the Universe. Using the Atacama Large Mi…
2021.11.10
Virtual Mitaka Open House Day 2021
NAOJ’s annual event Mitaka Open House Day was held online this year as in the previous year. The theme of this year's main lecture was "10 Years of Trajectory …
2021.11.08
ALMA Scientists Detect Signs of Water in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Water has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early Universe, according to new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (…
2021.11.04
A Cosmic Whodunit: ALMA Study Confirms What’s Robbing Galaxies of Their Star-Forming Gas
Astronomers examining the nearby Universe with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have just completed the largest high-resolut…
2021.10.20
Star forming region: an rich reservoir of large organic molecules
Proteins are polymers of amino acids joined together by the peptide bond -NHCO-. Peptide bonds are not only the ubiquity structures in proteins but also the ch…
2021.10.11
ALMA celebrates 10 years of science
At ALMA, we are celebrating doubly: on the one hand, October is the month of Science in Chile, and, on the other, we commemorate in ALMA the ten years since th…
2021.10.07
First ALMA Animation of Circling Twin Young Stars
Researchers analyzed the accumulated data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and depicted the motion of a young twin star system XZ T…
2021.09.30
ALMA Scientists Uncover the Mystery of Early Massive Galaxies Running on Empty
Early massive galaxies—those that formed in the three billion years following the Big Bang —should have contained large amounts of cold hydrogen gas, the fuel …
2021.09.27
ALMA celebrates 10 years of its first image with a contest to name its antennas
Humanity’s most complex terrestrial astronomical observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is about to celebrate ten years since it…
2021.09.23
Unveiling Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn That Were Hiding Behind the Dust
While investigating the data of young, distant galaxies observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Yoshinobu Fudamoto from Waseda Universi…
2021.09.15
Untangling the Formation of Planetary Systems with Deuterium
An international research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the distribution of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in plan…
2021.09.08
First Light with the ALMA Band 1 Receiver
An international team has developed, assembled, and integrated a new set of receivers for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Band 1 r…
2021.08.30
Name an ALMA Antenna: 10th Anniversary of the First ALMA Image
Humanity’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is about to celebrate 10 years since it of…
2021.08.23
Almost 15K Reviews for the Most Competitive Proposals Process to Observe with ALMA
The new ALMA cycle of observations, Cycle 8, was one of the most competitive to date. The requested hours for observation in the 12-m Array exceed by six times…
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2025 5.27
ALMA Booth at Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025
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NAOJ ALMA is exhibiting a booth at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting every year. This year’s event was held fro…
2025 5.22
A Fierce Storm in a Giant Barred Spiral Galaxy 11 Billion Years Ago
A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spira…
2025 4.30
exoALMA Gives Astronomers A New Look At How Planets Are Formed: Beyond planet hunting, this survey will reveal the mechanics behind planet forming discs
A team of international astronomers have embarked on an exciting new project to hunt for planets forming around young s…
