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2023.05.30
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the ALMA telescope, which began full-scale operations in March 2013. The ALMA telescope was jointly constructed and is …
2022.08.12
A research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan, has discovered that the abundances of dif…
2022.04.07
An international astronomer team has discovered the most distant galaxy candidate to date, named HD1, which is about 13.5 billion light-years away. This discov…
2022.03.30
A research article led by Dr. Takuya Hashimoto at the University of Tsukuba has received the 2021 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Excellent P…
2022.03.23
On February 22, 2022, the newly developed spectrometer for the Total Power Array of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA), also known as Morita Array, has successful…
2022.01.13
Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so close that one engulfs the other - with far-reaching consequences. When a team of astr…
2021.12.20
Seiji Fujimoto, a DAWN fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute, the University of Copenhagen, received Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists for fiscal 2021.
2021.10.20
Proteins are polymers of amino acids joined together by the peptide bond -NHCO-. Peptide bonds are not only the ubiquity structures in proteins but also the ch…
2021.10.11
At ALMA, we are celebrating doubly: on the one hand, October is the month of Science in Chile, and, on the other, we commemorate in ALMA the ten years since th…
2021.09.27
Humanity’s most complex terrestrial astronomical observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is about to celebrate ten years since it…
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…
The preliminary design review of “Band 8v2,” a development project to upgrade the Band 8 receiver, one of the ten recei…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered a stellar cradle of warm mol…
A remarkably bright galaxy affected by gravitational lensing, “Shadow Blaster,” was discovered through follow-up observ…
