2006.06.06
Wisdom + Benefit = Chile
On June 3, an article about Taiwans participation in ALMA was run in Taiwanese newspaper, Liberty Times. We received the article from Nagayoshi Ohashi of Acade…
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2006.05.31
Green clouds
Around 9:00 a.m. on May 31, green clouds appeared in the east sky of Santiago. The picture shows the clouds over Cordillera de los Andes, viewed from Joint ALM…
2006.05.22
Otaka-san's visit to Mitaka
Otaka-san is a woman introduced in letters column of the Asahi Shimbun of May 12. She has worked as a lathe operator for 30 years, and her friend wrote a lette…
2006.05.21
8th ALMA-J Public Lecture
The 8th ALMA Public Lecture titled We were born from stardust EALMA, a gigantic radiotelescope to explore the mysteries of the universeEwas held at Fukuoka Sci…
2006.05.20
Wonder Planetarium at Kumamoto City Museum
Wonder Planetarium Looking at the Southern Sky EStars Presented by the Constellation Camera i-CAN and ALMA ProjectEwas held at Kumamoto City Museum. The progra…
2006.04.25
8th ALMA-J Public Lecture in preparation
The 8th ALMA-J Public Lecture titled We were born from stardust EALMA, the gigantic radio telescope to explore the mysteries of the universeEwill be held on Ma…
2006.04.18
Eruption of Lascar
Lascar (5400 m asl), an active volcano located about 40 km south of the ALMA construction site, erupted around 11:00 am on April 18 local time (midnight on Apr…
2006.03.21
Steel framing of the AOS Technical Building completed
Construction of the AOS building (5050 m asl) is proceeding at a fast pace in Chile. As steel framing has been completed, our work is shifting to walling of th…
2006.03.04
Office building and Southern Cross
There has been no rain since the end of November last year in Santiago. As the season when the city is covered with a smoggy haze is yet to come, we can see st…
2006.02.20
Restoration of Japan's first radio telescope
Along with the development of cutting-edge equipment for ALMA, restoration of Japan’s first radio telescope is proceeding at NRO. This is a telescope ins…
2006.02.04
Science Live Show at Science Museum
Science Live Show “Universe” was held at Science Museum. Kaoru Kimura guided “Walk in the Solar System” using 3D image. After this, Sei…
2006.02.01
SKA Workshop
Japan Radio Astronomy Forum and Nobeyama Radio Observatory held a two-day joint symposium for SKA project on February 1 and 2. SKA is a project targeting frequ…
2006.01.23
Constellation camera opened its English webpage
In December last year, one of the “i-CAN” constellation cameras was installed at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF). After fixing some prob…
2006.01.15
Chileans elected their first woman president
Chilean presidential election is held every four years (incumbent president is not allowed to run for consecutive terms in office). In this presidential electi…
2006.01.04
NAOJ Director General's new year speech
Norio Kaifu, Director General of NAOJ gave an annual new year speech at Mitaka, which was shared with three other observatories using videoconference system): …
2005.12.22
NTT Group Communication Expo
NTT Group Communication EXPO was held at Tokyo International Forum from December 20 to 22. As part of their exhibition, there were demonstrations of remote-con…
2005.12.21
NAOJ Cosmic Radio Committee
NAOJ Cosmic Radio Committee meeting was held with extensive range of users as observers to discuss the role of Nobeyama Radio Observatory in the ALMA era, spec…
2005.12.17
Public lecture at National Science Museum
A public lecture was held at National Science Museum on December 17. More than 50 people attended the presentation titled “The birth of galaxies and plan…
2005.12.15
11th IAU Latin American Regional Meeting
International Astronomical Union (IAU) held its 11th Latin American Regional Meeting in Pucon, a tourist site in southern Chile, from December 12 to 16. About …
2005.12.10
Workshop on Submillimeter Astronomy and Receiver Technologies in Nanjing
An international research meeting titled “Workshop on Submillimeter Astronomy and Receiver Technologies” was held at Purple Mountain Observatory in…
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