2023.08.14
New ALMA Receivers that will probe Our Cosmic Origins Successfully tested
An international team of astronomers and engineers at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first measurements using new receiv…
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2023.06.12
NINS President and NAOJ Director General Visit the ALMA Site
During their recent visit to Chile, NINS President Maki Kawai and NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta visited the ALMA site on May 31st, together with a Japanes…
2023.06.07
NINS President Maki Kawai and NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta Visit Dignitaries in Chile
From left to right: NINS President Kawai, Ambassador Julio Bravo, and NAOJ Director General Tsuneta (Photo: Goro Watanabe/NINS) From May 29 to June 2, 2023 (lo…
2023.05.30
Ceremony Held in Tokyo to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Full-scale Operations of the ALMA Telescope
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
New Material “Fingerprint” to Understand Planetary System Formation with ALMA
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
Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Yet
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
Takuya Hashimoto at the University of Tsukuba receives the 2021 PASJ Excellent Paper Award for his research using the ALMA Telescope
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
First light with the new spectrometer for the Atacama Compact Array
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
Stars’ secret embraces revealed by ALMA
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 at University of Copenhagen Receives Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
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
Star forming region: an rich reservoir of large organic molecules
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
ALMA celebrates 10 years of science
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
ALMA celebrates 10 years of its first image with a contest to name its antennas
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
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…
2021.08.30
Name an ALMA Antenna: 10th Anniversary of the First ALMA Image
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
Almost 15K Reviews for the Most Competitive Proposals Process to Observe with ALMA
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
Tanabata Lecture Held at Santiago Japanese School
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 Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
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
New Review Process Starts with High Demand to Observe with ALMA
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
NAOJ Young Researchers Award Given to Chat Hull at the NAOJ Chile
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…
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2026 10.15
Jun Sawada, Executive Chairman of NTT Inc. and Chairperson of the Committee on National Space Policy, Visits ALMA Facilities in Chile
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On September 15, 2026, Mr. Jun Sawada, Executive Chairman of NTT Inc. and Chairperson of the Committee on National Spac…
2026 10.8
ALMA Reveals Hidden Chemistry and Unexpected Radio Beacons Around Young Stars
An international team brought a major ALMA survey to open a new window on how organic molecules take shape around young…
2026 9.8
Watching a Massive Binary Assemble in Real Time
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have obtained the most detailed three-dimens…
