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…
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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…
2005.12.09
Constellation camera started its operation in Chile
An advanced constellation camera called “i-CAN” was installed in the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) and started its operation. The “i…
2005.11.13
7th ALMA-J Public Lecture at Kochi
7th ALMA-J public lecture titled “Dream for the Space” (hosted by NAOJ under the joint auspices of Kochi Education Center, and Kochi-ken BUNKYO KYO…
2005.11.12
3rd Astronomical Lecture in Tosa-cho (Kochi Pref.)
The 3rd Astronomical Lecture in Tosa-town titled “Evening with stars and music” (hosted by Tosa-town’s education board under the joint auspic…
2005.10.22
Public lecture at Nagano Tech
An astronomical lecture presentation tiled “New picture of the universe explored by ALMA, gigantic radio telescope in the Andes” (hosted by Nagano …
2005.10.16
6th ALMA-J Public Lecture at Okayama
The 6th ALMA public lecture titled “The birth and death of the stars explored by ALMA” (hosted by NAOJ and Okayama University of Science, Academic …
2005.10.15
Open campus at Mitaka
About 1700 people visited Mitaka campus on the special open day. At the ALMA booth, we presented a demonstration of remote control of the 45 cm telescope locat…
2005.09.22
No llamas
We sometimes see a domesticated llama (a type of the camels) around San Pedro de Atacama, the closest village from the ALMA construction site. The picture show…
2005.09.18
Diesiocho
September 18th is the independence day of Chile, and September 19th is the Armed Forces Day. This week is called “Diesiocho” (meaning “18R…
2005.09.15
Window cleaning at JAO
It is risky to clean the windows of Santiago Office on 18th floor of 21-story building. This picture shows a window cleaner going down from the upper floor wit…
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