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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

Online Exchange Event to Learn Latest Astronomy with ALMA

On December 6, 2020, an online exchange event titled “Learning the Latest Astronomy with ALMA” was held by Mitaka City, Tokyo.

2020.11.25

NAOJ and UEC Sign Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement

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

Status of the ALMA recovery process

Tags: ALMA Topics

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

Newly processed Venus ALMA data made available to the community

Tags: ALMA Discoveries ALMA Topics Cosmic Mysteries

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

Virtual Mitaka Open House Day 2020

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

ALMA starts the process of recovering the telescope array

Tags: ALMA Topics

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

Nobeyama Radio Observatory holds “Open Campus 2020 at Home”

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…

2020.08.20

Education Minister Koichi Hagiuda Visits NAOJ

Tags: ALMA Topics

On August 6, Koichi Hagiuda, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and Hiroshi Ikukawa, Director-General of the Research and D…

2020.04.30

Contract Signed for New ALMA Receivers - ALMA expands its grasp to study molecules in the Universe

The contract has been signed for the production of the final set of receivers to be installed on the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA …

2020.03.20

COVID-19 (coronavirus) Measures at ALMA

Tags: ALMA Topics

With the current developments in Chile related to coronavirus, the ALMA Director decided to initiate preparations for the total shutdown of the Observatory. T…

2020.02.19

ALMA Band 1 Receiver Manufacturing Readiness Review

The ALMA Band 1 receiver Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR) was held on November 12-13, 2019. As part of the East-Asian ALMA Development program, the Band 1 …

2020.02.13

ALMA Data Analysis Workshop (Imaging for Pre-Intermediate Level)

From January 15 through 16, 2020, the NAOJ ALMA Project and Astronomy Data Center jointly organized ALMA Data Analysis Workshop on Imaging for pre-intermediate…

2020.02.10

NAOJ Public Talk/24th ALMA Public Talk

On Sunday, February 2, the NAOJ Public Talk/the 24th ALMA Public Talk was held at the Tokyo International Exchange Center (TIEC) in Koto, Tokyo. The talk event…

2020.01.28

New Spectrometer for Morita Array CDMR

The East ALMA Development program has held an important milestone in the last month of 2019, in collaboration with our East Asian ALMA partners. The Critical D…

2020.01.10

ALMA/45m/ASTE Users Meeting 2019

From December 18 through 19, 2019, ALMA/45m/ASTE Users Meeting was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus. The meeting was attended by 109 users of ALMA, the Nobeyama …

2019.12.19

NAOJ and NICT Sign Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) signed a comprehensive col…

2019.11.05

Mitaka Open House Day 2019