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2017.04.20
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has made a new high-fidelity im…
2017.04.13
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of …
2017.04.07
Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images. Around 500 years ago, a pair of adolescent protostars had a pe…
2017.03.17
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully imaged a radio “hole” around a galaxy cluster 4.8 billion li…
2017.03.08
Astronomers have used ALMA to detect a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the Universe was only four percent of its present age. This galaxy…
2017.03.03
An international team of astronomers, led by Hyosun Kim in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has found a way of deriving…
2017.02.15
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive black hole and the gal…
2017.02.08
One of the big puzzles in astrophysics is how stars like the sun manage to form from collapsing molecular clouds in star-forming regions of the universe. The…
2017.01.18
New images taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal surprising details of the Sun, including the dark, contorted center of an …
2016.12.21
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has begun observing in a new range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has been made possibl…
2016.12.14
Astronomers now know that our galaxy is teeming with planets, from rocky worlds roughly the size of Earth to gas giants bigger than Jupiter. Nearly every one o…
2016.12.05
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have for the first time, achieved a precise size measurement of small dust particl…
2016.11.07
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk o…
2016.10.27
For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a…
2016.10.13
A joint team of University of Tokyo researchers and their collaborators, using ALMA and other telescopes that utilize radio waves for space observation, reve…
2016.09.30
Swirling around the young star Elias 2-27, astronomers discovered a stunning spiral-shape pinwheel of dust. This striking feature, seen with the Atacama Large …
2016.09.29
Astronomers have discovered a ‘hot molecular core’, a cocoon of molecules surrounding a newborn massive star, for the first time outside our Gala…
2016.09.27
This release was modified on 15 November 2016 to correct several errors and misleading phrases. In particular the release in places gave the impression that s…
2016.09.14
Astronomers found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Based on the…
2016.08.31
A new record for the most distant galaxy cluster has been set using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, including the Atacama Large Mi…
Two students from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) have received awards for their collaborative research …
An international research team has conducted detailed observations of three “monster galaxies” in the early Universe us…
Professor Kenichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has been selected for the 58th Research Grant (FY2025) in the Spac…
