2020.01.28
New Spectrometer for Morita Array CDMR
The East ALMA Development program has held an important milestone in the last month of 2019, in collaboration with our East Asian ALMA partners. The Critical D…
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2020.01.28
The East ALMA Development program has held an important milestone in the last month of 2019, in collaboration with our East Asian ALMA partners. The Critical D…
2020.01.23
Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a myst…
2020.01.16
ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. NGC 6240 as seen with ALMA (top) and the Hubble Space Telescope (bottom…
2020.01.10
From December 18 through 19, 2019, ALMA/45m/ASTE Users Meeting was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus. The meeting was attended by 109 users of ALMA, the Nobeyama …
2019.12.27
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million years after the Big …
2019.12.23
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti…
2019.12.19
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) signed a comprehensive col…
2019.12.16
Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large M…
2019.12.05
For the first time, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have witnessed 3D motions of gas in a planet-forming disk. At thr…
2019.11.21
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected a pair of spiral arms in an accretion disk around a baby star. Interestingly…
2019.11.18
The origin of the cosmic explosion “AT2018cow” discovered on June 16, 2018 is still controversial; it could have originated from a tidal disruption or from a s…
2019.11.14
Two peacock-shaped gaseous clouds were revealed in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA…
2019.11.05
On Saturday, October 26, Mitaka Open House Day 2019 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. The open house day is an annual event to open the NAOJ research facilit…
2019.10.29
The management team at the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) have decided to return to regular operations over the next few days, with regular work shifts and scien…
2019.10.23
Late last week, a decision to increase metro fares in Santiago metropolitan area triggered protest in Santiago, which have spread to other areas in Chile. Thes…
2019.10.18
Astronomers using ALMA have obtained an extremely high-resolution image showing two disks in which young stars are growing, fed by a complex pretzel-shaped net…
2019.10.15
Using the detailed eyes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have mapped the intense ta…
2019.10.11
The 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to a group of scientists for the achievement made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that succ…
2019.10.09
Astronomers have discovered the rarest stable carbon monoxide isotope molecule, 13C17O, in the dust and gas disk around a young star usin…
2019.10.04
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research has used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) a…
Astronomers have discovered the remnants of powerful ‘sneezes’ expelling gas, dust, and electromagnetic energy around s…
An international research team led by Sergio Martín of the European Southern Observatory/Joint ALMA Observatory, Nanase…
ALMA is celebrating 10 years of full-scale operation in 2023. In December 2023, an international conference was held in…