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…
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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 …
2021.03.18
Powerful stratospheric winds measured on Jupiter for the first time
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers have directly measured winds in Jupiter’s middle atmosphere for the first …
2021.03.16
ALMA Soon to Resume Science Observations
While the impact of COVID-19 continues to affect our lives worldwide, ALMA staff have been moving forward on the long road toward recovering the Arrays and res…
2021.02.24
ALMA reveals the very seeds of stars in the forming
Stars are known to form in so-called “molecular clouds”; collections of cold gas and dust in the space between stars. These stellar nurseries can contain a num…
2021.02.09
Discovery of Interaction between Jet and Disk Wind from a Star-Forming Accretion Disk
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has spatially resolved a magnet…
2021.01.28
ALMA / 45m / ASTE Users Meeting
The ALMA / 45m / ASTE Users Meeting was held online from January 5 to 7, 2021. A total of 138 users and staff members of ALMA, Nobeyama 45-m telescope, and AST…
2021.01.26
ALMA Array Recovery Status Update (January 2021)
While the COVID-19 pandemic persists all around the world, ALMA staff at the JAO and in the regions continue to work towards bringing the array back online, wi…
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…
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.
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Watching a Massive Binary Assemble in Real Time
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have obtained the most detailed three-dimens…
2026 7.29
Student Honored for Collaborative Research with ALMA Receiver Development Team
A student from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) have received an award for his collaborative research wit…
2026 7.14
ALMA Band 8 Receiver Upgrade Successfully Passed the Preliminary Design Review
The preliminary design review of “Band 8v2,” a development project to upgrade the Band 8 receiver, one of the ten recei…
