2023.03.02
Resurrected Supernova Provides Missing-Link in Stellar Evolution
An international research team has discovered the first example of a supernova, known as SN 2018ivc, showing an unprecedented rebrightening at millimeter wavel…
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2023.02.03
Outflows from Baby Star Affect Nearby Star Formation
Astronomers revealed fast gas outflows from a baby star strongly colliding with nearby dense gas where a group of baby stars are being born. The result suggest…
2023.01.20
A 1000x Sharper View - Are Magnetically Stabilized Streamers a Fundamental Building Block in High-Mass Star Formation?
The high resolution of the ALMA telescope has revealed that magnetic fields where massive stars are born play an important role in how matter is supplied to th…
2022.12.09
Measuring Gamma-Ray Bursts' Hidden Energy Unearths Clues to the Evolution of the Universe
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, allowing astrophysicists to observe intense gamma rays in short durations. Gamma-ray bursts …
2022.08.12
New Material “Fingerprint” to Understand Planetary System Formation with ALMA
A research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan, has discovered that the abundances of dif…
2022.07.01
Capturing the Onset of Galaxy Rotation in the Early Universe
An international research team led by Tsuyoshi Tokuoka, a graduate student at Waseda University in Japan, has observed signs of rotation in a galaxy, which ex…
2022.06.17
Close encounter more than 10,000 years ago stirred up spirals in an accretion disk
An international research led by X. Lu, a former ALMA postdoc fellow at NAOJ and now an associate researcher at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, has used hig…
2022.05.31
Unknown structure in galaxy revealed by high contrast imaging
A team of astronomers in Japan has discovered for the first time a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy with an energetic black hole at its center. The…
2022.05.12
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence …
2022.04.07
Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Yet
An international astronomer team has discovered the most distant galaxy candidate to date, named HD1, which is about 13.5 billion light-years away. This discov…
2022.03.02
ALMA detects nitrogen and oxygen radio waves emitted by a galaxy 12.9 billion years ago
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully detected radio waves emitted by nitrogen and oxygen from a galaxy that existed 12.9 billio…
2022.01.13
Stars’ secret embraces revealed by ALMA
Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so close that one engulfs the other - with far-reaching consequences. When a team of astr…
2021.12.02
Stellar Cocoon with Organic Molecules at the Edge of our Galaxy
For the first time, astronomers have detected a newborn star and the surrounding cocoon of complex organic molecules at the edge of our Galaxy, which is known …
2021.11.15
Astronomers make most distant detection yet of fluorine in star-forming galaxy
A new discovery is shedding light on how fluorine — an element found in our bones and teeth as fluoride — is forged in the Universe. Using the Atacama Large Mi…
2021.11.08
ALMA Scientists Detect Signs of Water in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Water has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early Universe, according to new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (…
2021.11.04
A Cosmic Whodunit: ALMA Study Confirms What’s Robbing Galaxies of Their Star-Forming Gas
Astronomers examining the nearby Universe with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have just completed the largest high-resolut…
2021.10.20
Star forming region: an rich reservoir of large organic molecules
Proteins are polymers of amino acids joined together by the peptide bond -NHCO-. Peptide bonds are not only the ubiquity structures in proteins but also the ch…
2021.10.07
First ALMA Animation of Circling Twin Young Stars
Researchers analyzed the accumulated data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and depicted the motion of a young twin star system XZ T…
2021.09.30
ALMA Scientists Uncover the Mystery of Early Massive Galaxies Running on Empty
Early massive galaxies—those that formed in the three billion years following the Big Bang —should have contained large amounts of cold hydrogen gas, the fuel …
2021.09.23
Unveiling Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn That Were Hiding Behind the Dust
While investigating the data of young, distant galaxies observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Yoshinobu Fudamoto from Waseda Universi…
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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…
