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…
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2020.11.23
Status of the ALMA recovery process
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
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
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
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
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
On Saturday, October 26, Mitaka Open House Day 2019 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. The open house day is an annual event to open the NAOJ research facilit…
2019.10.29
ALMA resumes regular operations
The management team at the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) have decided to return to regular operations over the next few days, with regular work shifts and scien…
2019.10.23
ALMA Prioritizes Employees’ Safety and Reduces Science Operations
Late last week, a decision to increase metro fares in Santiago metropolitan area triggered protest in Santiago, which have spread to other areas in Chile. Thes…
2019.10.11
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to ALMA Staff for the First Black Hole Picture
The 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to a group of scientists for the achievement made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that succ…
2019.09.13
Nobeyama Radio Observatory Open Campus 2019
In the pleasant sunny weather, the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory Open Campus 2019 was held in Nobeyama on Saturday, August 24. Reflecting the sun, shining wh…
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A University of Tokyo student has been honored with an award for her collaborative research paper based on ALMA observa…
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