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…
ALMA Discoveries
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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…
2021.09.15
Untangling the Formation of Planetary Systems with Deuterium
An international research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the distribution of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in plan…
2021.08.11
ALMA Finds Super-Fast Rotation of Baby Star’s Jet
It is known that gas jets are ejected from a baby star, but it was not clear how the jets are formed. By observing the rotation of the jets in detail and combi…
2021.07.30
ALMA Observes Interplay between Magnetic Force and Gravity in Massive Star Formation
The magnetic field is part of one of the four fundamental forces in nature. It plays a vital role in everyday life, from producing electricity in hydroelectric…
2021.07.28
Astronomers make first clear detection of a moon-forming disk around an exoplanet
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a diskaround a planet outside our Solar S…
2021.07.20
EHT pinpoints dark heart of the nearest radio galaxy
An international team anchored by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is known for capturing the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M…
2021.07.13
Do Supernova Explosions feed a Big Eater Black Hole?
It has long been a mystery how a black hole at the center of a galaxy swallows gas from the huge rotating gas disk around it. Observations with two radio teles…
2021.07.01
ALMA Observes Deep into Chaotic Planetary Nursery
Planet formation is still a mystery. Astronomers have been studying protoplanetary discs for decades, trying to solve the details of planetary genesis. Thanks …
2021.06.15
Cosmic Cartographers Map Nearby Universe Revealing the Diversity of Star-Forming Galaxies
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has completed the first census of molecular clouds in the nearby Universe, …
2021.06.11
ALMA Discovers Earliest Gigantic Black Hole Storm
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole 13.1 billion y…
2021.06.08
Discovery of a Dying Supermassive Black Hole Via a 3000-year-long Light Echo
Supermassive black holes (SMBH) occupy the center of galaxies, with masses ranging from one million to 10 billion solar masses. Some SMBHs are in a bright phas…
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…
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…
2021.03.29
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…
NEW ARTICLES
2025 8.8
The Universe’s Secret Harvest: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”
Super high-resolution ALMA and JWST observations unveil unexpected substructure and underlying gas dynamics in a faint,…
2025 8.5
Discovery of Protoplanetary Disk Caught in Explosion Driven by Stellar Jet
A research team led by Masataka Aizawa of Ibaraki University studied a protoplanetary disk around the young star WSB 52…
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…
