2021.09.08
First Light with the ALMA Band 1 Receiver
An international team has developed, assembled, and integrated a new set of receivers for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Band 1 r…
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2021.09.08
An international team has developed, assembled, and integrated a new set of receivers for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Band 1 r…
2021.08.30
Humanity’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is about to celebrate 10 years since it of…
2021.08.23
The new ALMA cycle of observations, Cycle 8, was one of the most competitive to date. The requested hours for observation in the 12-m Array exceed by six times…
2021.07.21
On July 7, the day of the Tanabata star festival, Associate Professor Yoshiharu Asaki gave a lecture on astronomy titled "Amanogawa (the Milky Way) and the Gal…
2021.06.16
Two young ALMA researchers, Dr. Takafumi Kojima at NAOJ and Dr. Takuya Hashimoto at University of Tsukuba received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2021 Commendati…
2021.05.25
The ALMA Call for Proposals (CfP) for observations in Cycle 8 2021 had a fantastic response from the community with a record number of hours requested. And, fo…
2021.04.09
The NAOJ Young Researchers Award was established in 2018 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of NAOJ. The award aims to encourage young researchers at NAOJ who…
2021.03.31
The NAOJ Public Talk 2021/ the 25th ALMA Public Talk was held online on Saturday, March 6. The event started from 9 a.m. Japan time (21:00 Chile time), conside…
2021.03.26
ALMA is very pleased to share the positive news that science observations re-started on 17 March 2021. These were the first scientific data to be acquired sinc…
2021.03.16
While the impact of COVID-19 continues to affect our lives worldwide, ALMA staff have been moving forward on the long road toward recovering the Arrays and res…
2021.01.28
The ALMA / 45m / ASTE Users Meeting was held online from January 5 to 7, 2021. A total of 138 users and staff members of ALMA, Nobeyama 45-m telescope, and AST…
2021.01.26
While the COVID-19 pandemic persists all around the world, ALMA staff at the JAO and in the regions continue to work towards bringing the array back online, wi…
2020.12.25
On December 14, 2020, we had another opportunity to observe a total solar eclipse in Chile, following 2019. Leveraging the momentum of this big astronomical ev…
2020.12.21
On December 6, 2020, an online exchange event titled “Learning the Latest Astronomy with ALMA” was held by Mitaka City, Tokyo.
2020.11.25
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) signed a comprehensive collaboration agreement in a si…
2020.11.23
The pandemic situation in Chile is remaining stable and over the past few weeks ALMA staff have been moving forward with ALMA’s plan to recover the telescope a…
2020.11.18
A newly and better processed version of data on planet Venus, collected with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, has now been mad…
2020.11.13
NAOJ held its Mitaka Open House Day 2020 as a virtual open house on Saturday, October 24, 2020. A live streaming video was broadcast from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.…
2020.10.01
With the improving pandemic situation in Chile, ALMA is now scheduled to begin the long process of recovering the telescope array in the Atacama, starting with…
2020.09.09
On Saturday, August 29, the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory held its open day event titled “Open Campus 2020 at Home”. Since it was the first attempt for the o…
Astronomers have discovered the remnants of powerful ‘sneezes’ expelling gas, dust, and electromagnetic energy around s…
An international research team led by Sergio Martín of the European Southern Observatory/Joint ALMA Observatory, Nanase…
ALMA is celebrating 10 years of full-scale operation in 2023. In December 2023, an international conference was held in…