2021.01.15
Quasar Discovery Sets New Distance Record
An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar yet found — a cosmic monster more than 13 billion light-years from Earth powered by…
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2021.01.12
ALMA captures distant colliding galaxy dying out as it loses the ability to form stars
Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Usin…
2020.12.25
Online Lecture on Solar Eclipse Observation in Chile
On December 14, 2020, we had another opportunity to observe a total solar eclipse in Chile, following 2019. Leveraging the momentum of this big astronomical ev…
2020.12.21
Online Exchange Event to Learn Latest Astronomy with ALMA
On December 6, 2020, an online exchange event titled “Learning the Latest Astronomy with ALMA” was held by Mitaka City, Tokyo.
2020.11.25
NAOJ and UEC Sign Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) signed a comprehensive collaboration agreement in a si…
2020.11.23
Status of the ALMA recovery process
The pandemic situation in Chile is remaining stable and over the past few weeks ALMA staff have been moving forward with ALMA’s plan to recover the telescope a…
2020.11.18
Newly processed Venus ALMA data made available to the community
A newly and better processed version of data on planet Venus, collected with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, has now been mad…
2020.11.13
Virtual Mitaka Open House Day 2020
NAOJ held its Mitaka Open House Day 2020 as a virtual open house on Saturday, October 24, 2020. A live streaming video was broadcast from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.…
2020.10.27
Galaxies in the Infant Universe were Surprisingly Mature
Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This was shown by an international team of astronomers who studi…
2020.10.22
ALMA Shows Volcanic Impact on Io’s Atmosphere
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere …
2020.10.01
ALMA starts the process of recovering the telescope array
With the improving pandemic situation in Chile, ALMA is now scheduled to begin the long process of recovering the telescope array in the Atacama, starting with…
2020.10.01
Astronomers Capture Stellar Winds in Unprecedented Detail
Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a set of stellar winds around aging stars and present an explanation for th…
2020.09.25
Pair of Massive Baby Stars Swaddled in Salty Water Vapor
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby stars growing in salty cosmic soup. Each star is shro…
2020.09.15
Phosphine on Venus – A step forward to understand biomarker molecule
An international team of astronomers detected phosphine (PH3) in the atmosphere of Venus. They studied the origin of phosphine, but no inorganic pro…
2020.09.09
Nobeyama Radio Observatory holds “Open Campus 2020 at Home”
On Saturday, August 29, the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory held its open day event titled “Open Campus 2020 at Home”. Since it was the first attempt for the o…
2020.09.04
Misaligned Planet-Forming Rings around Triple Young Stars
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a peculiar dust ring system around the young triple st…
2020.08.20
Education Minister Koichi Hagiuda Visits NAOJ
On August 6, Koichi Hagiuda, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and Hiroshi Ikukawa, Director-General of the Research and D…
2020.08.13
ALMA sees most distant Milky Way look-alike
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed an extremely distant and therefore very young galaxy that looks surpris…
2020.08.07
Stellar Egg Hunt with ALMA – Tracing Evolution from Embryo to Baby Star
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and revealed their evolutio…
2020.08.04
ALMA Captures Stirred-Up Planet Factory
Planet-forming environments can be much more complex and chaotic than previously expected. This is evidenced by a new image of the star RU Lup, made with the A…
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