2021.07.21
Tanabata Lecture Held at Santiago Japanese School
On July 7, the day of the Tanabata star festival, Associate Professor Yoshiharu Asaki gave a lecture on astronomy titled "Amanogawa (the Milky Way) and the Gal…
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2021.07.20
EHT pinpoints dark heart of the nearest radio galaxy
An international team anchored by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is known for capturing the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M…
2021.07.13
Do Supernova Explosions feed a Big Eater Black Hole?
It has long been a mystery how a black hole at the center of a galaxy swallows gas from the huge rotating gas disk around it. Observations with two radio teles…
2021.07.08
New Radio Receiver Opens Wider Window to Radio Universe
Researchers have used the latest wireless technology to develop a new radio receiver for astronomy. The receiver is capable of capturing radio waves at frequen…
2021.07.01
ALMA Observes Deep into Chaotic Planetary Nursery
Planet formation is still a mystery. Astronomers have been studying protoplanetary discs for decades, trying to solve the details of planetary genesis. Thanks …
2021.06.16
Two Young ALMA Researchers Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
Two young ALMA researchers, Dr. Takafumi Kojima at NAOJ and Dr. Takuya Hashimoto at University of Tsukuba received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2021 Commendati…
2021.06.15
Cosmic Cartographers Map Nearby Universe Revealing the Diversity of Star-Forming Galaxies
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has completed the first census of molecular clouds in the nearby Universe, …
2021.06.11
ALMA Discovers Earliest Gigantic Black Hole Storm
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole 13.1 billion y…
2021.06.08
Discovery of a Dying Supermassive Black Hole Via a 3000-year-long Light Echo
Supermassive black holes (SMBH) occupy the center of galaxies, with masses ranging from one million to 10 billion solar masses. Some SMBHs are in a bright phas…
2021.05.25
New Review Process Starts with High Demand to Observe with ALMA
The ALMA Call for Proposals (CfP) for observations in Cycle 8 2021 had a fantastic response from the community with a record number of hours requested. And, fo…
2021.05.21
ALMA Discovers the Most Ancient Galaxy with Spiral Morphology
Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found a galaxy with a spiral morphology by only 1.4 billion y…
2021.05.14
ALMA First Detects Belt-like Distribution of Hydrogen Cyanide on Neptune’s Equator
The ALMA observations by a team of researchers led by Takahiro Iino, Project Associate Professor of Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, det…
2021.04.27
Record-breaking stellar flare from nearby star recorded in multiple wavelengths for the first time
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted a flare from Earth’s nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri, that is…
2021.04.20
ALMA Discovers Rotating Infant Galaxy with Help of Natural Cosmic Telescope
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a time when the Un…
2021.04.14
Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievem…
2021.04.09
NAOJ Young Researchers Award Given to Chat Hull at the NAOJ Chile
The NAOJ Young Researchers Award was established in 2018 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of NAOJ. The award aims to encourage young researchers at NAOJ who…
2021.03.31
The 25th ALMA Public Talk Held Online
The NAOJ Public Talk 2021/ the 25th ALMA Public Talk was held online on Saturday, March 6. The event started from 9 a.m. Japan time (21:00 Chile time), conside…
2021.03.29
Stellar Eggs near Galactic Center Hatching into Baby Stars
Astronomers found a number of baby stars hiding around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Previous stud…
2021.03.26
ALMA science observations have re-started
ALMA is very pleased to share the positive news that science observations re-started on 17 March 2021. These were the first scientific data to be acquired sinc…
2021.03.24
Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed today a new view of the massive object at the …
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2026 3.19
Streamline feeding of a baby massive star
An international team captured an unprecedented view of gas streamers flowing into a forming high-mass star. Thanks to …
2026 3.12
Student Honored for Research with ALMA
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A University of Tokyo student has been honored with an award for her collaborative research paper based on ALMA observa…
2026 3.6
Largest image of its kind shows hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way
Astronomers have captured a complex network of cosmic gas in the central region of the Milky Way, in unprecedented area…
