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…
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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…
2020.07.31
ALMA Finds Possible Sign of Neutron Star in Supernova 1987A
Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A. Based on observations of the Atacama Large Millime…
2020.06.17
Supergiant Atmosphere of Antares Revealed by Radio Telescopes
An international team of astronomers has created the most detailed map yet of the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares. The unprecedented sensitivity …
2020.05.22
ALMA Spots Twinkling Heart of Milky Way
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, S…
2020.05.21
ALMA Discovers Massive Rotating Disk in Early Universe
In our 13.8 billion-year-old universe, most galaxies like our Milky Way form gradually, reaching their large mass relatively late. But a new discovery made wit…
2020.04.30
Contract Signed for New ALMA Receivers - ALMA expands its grasp to study molecules in the Universe
The contract has been signed for the production of the final set of receivers to be installed on the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA …
2020.04.21
ALMA Reveals Unusual Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
A galactic visitor entered our solar system last year – interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. When astronomers pointed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arra…
2020.04.07
Something is Lurking in the Heart of Quasar 3C 279 - Event Horizon Telescope Images of a Black-Hole Powered Jet
One year ago the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration h…
2020.03.27
ALMA Resolves Gas Impacted by Young Jets from Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submill…
2020.03.25
The Strange Orbits of ‘Tatooine’ Planetary Disks
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found striking orbital geometries in protoplanetary disks around binary stars. W…
2020.03.20
COVID-19 (coronavirus) Measures at ALMA
With the current developments in Chile related to coronavirus, the ALMA Director decided to initiate preparations for the total shutdown of the Observatory. T…
2020.03.05
ALMA Spots Metamorphosing Aged Star
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the very moment when an old star first starts t…
2020.02.21
How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming dis…
2020.02.19
ALMA Band 1 Receiver Manufacturing Readiness Review
The ALMA Band 1 receiver Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR) was held on November 12-13, 2019. As part of the East-Asian ALMA Development program, the Band 1 …
2020.02.14
Galactic Cosmic Rays Affect Titan’s Atmosphere
Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets of the atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.…
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2025 4.17
Akimasa Kataoka Received the Young Scientists’ Award by MEXT
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Dr. Akimasa Kataoka at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the M…
2025 4.15
Takafumi Tsukui Received Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
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Takafumi Tsukui at the Australian National University (currently Tohoku University) received Inoue Research Award for Y…
2025 3.31
ACA Total Power Array Spectrometer Development Team Receives NAOJ Director General’s Award
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
