2012.04.12
ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary System
A new observatory still under construction has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system that can provide valuable clu…
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2012.04.02
NAOJ Chile Observatory Established
On April 1, 2012, the NAOJ Chile Observatory was established as a center of NAOJ’s research activities in Chile. Since April 2000, the NAOJ ALMA Project …
2012.02.03
ALMA EA-FEIC Completed the Last ACA Receiver System
On January 4, the ALMA East Asia Front-End Integration Center (EA-FEIC) in Taiwan completed the fabrication and evaluation of all the receiver systems for the …
2011.11.21
25 Antennas at AOS
On November 15, one more North American 12-m antenna was transported from the Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2900 m to the Array Operations Site (AOS) at…
2011.10.03
ALMA Opens Its Eyes
The most powerful millimeter/submillimeter-wavelength telescope in the world opens for business and reveals its first image Humanity’s most complex grou…
2011.09.02
Successful Interferometer Test with Japanese 7-m and 12-m Antennas at AOS
On September 2, an interferometer test was conducted with the first Japanese 7-m and first 12-m antennas at the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl and i…
2011.08.11
Successful Interferometer Test with Two Japanese 7-m Antennas
On August 11, an interferometer test using two Japanese 7-m antennas was conducted at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2900 m asl and interference frin…
2011.08.11
Successful Interferometer Test with Sixteen 12-m Antennas
On August 6, an interferometer test was conducted at the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl and fringes of 120 baselines were successfully obtained with…
2011.06.06
Successful Interferometer Test with Japanese 7-m antenna and 12-m antenna
On May 30, radio waves emitted by a variable star VX Sagittarii were collected by a Japanese 7-m antenna and a 12-m antenna, and interference fringes were suc…
2011.04.26
First Successful Interferometer Test with Two Japanese Antennas
On March 10, 2011, at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2900 m asl., radio waves emitted by the Sun were collected by two 12-m Japanese antennas and in…
2010.12.12
Nine 12-m Antennas at AOS
On December 12, an American antenna of 12 m in diameter was transported from OSF (2,900 m asl) to AOS (5,000 m asl), bringing the total number of the antenna…
2010.12.08
ALMA Board Statement on Early Science
— ALMA Board Statement on Early Science — “At its meeting on November 16th-18th 2010, the ALMA Board noted the tremendous recent progress in…
2010.12.08
Test Image 1: Spiral Galaxy NGC253
This shows the well-known spiral NGC253, with an optical image of the whole galaxy on the left (credit: ESO). The ALMA test images show dense clouds of gas in …
2010.12.08
Test Image 2: Hot Molecular Core G34.26+0.15
An example of ALMA’s potential as a spectroscopic instrument: on the left is the map of the molecular “hot core” G34.26+0.15, which is unreso…
2010.12.08
Test Image 3: Disk around Bata-Pictoris
This shows the emission from the disk of dust surrounding the star Beta-Pictoris. On the left is an image at 70 microns from Herschel, (Olofsson et al., SDP Pr…
2010.12.08
Test Image 4: Quasar BRI 0952-0115
As a test of ALMA’s ability to observe broad spectral lines, we observed the quasar BRI 0952-0115, which is at a redshift of z = 4.43. The object is agai…
2010.05.29
Four 12-meter Antennas at AOS
At the Array Operations Site (AOS), there are currently four 12-meter antennas, which are under the performance evaluation. Since each of the antennas is usual…
2009.12.25
ALMA Video "Japanese ALMA antenna became the first to arrive at the ALMA 5000 m site." was released.
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2009.10.29
ACA 7-m Antenna Arrived at the OSF
The ACA 7-m antenna, which entered a Chilean port on October 26, safely arrived at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) in the evening of October 29 (aft…
2009.10.26
ACA 7-m Antenna Arrived in Chile
The first ACA 7-m Antenna, shipped from the Port of Kobe on September 20, safely arrived in Chile after a one-month journey. According to a crew, the sea was c…
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2025 6.26
Development of Total Power GPU Spectrometer was approved by ALMA Board
In April 2025, the ALMA Board approved the development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array (*) designed and deve…
2025 6.24
New Super-resolution Imaging Reveals the First Step of Planet Formation after Star Birth
A research team led by Ayumu Shoshi of Kyushu University and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysic…
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Joint ALMA Observatory Open Day 2025
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On March 21, 2025, NAOJ participated in the public event "Open Day 2025" held at the Joint ALMA Observatory in Santiago…
