2016.04.27
ALMA Cycle 4 Town Meeting in Mitaka
On April 4, an ALMA Town Meeting was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. ALMA invited calls for proposals for Cycle 4, which will start from October this year. Th…
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2016.04.21
Japanese ALMA Antenna Development Team Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
Five Japanese researchers and engineers received the 2015 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Te…
2016.01.13
Research Presentation by Graduate Students
Currently 15 graduate students are studying at the ALMA building in the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. They come from various universities such as the Graduate University…
2015.12.25
New Video Released "ALMA Receiver Development -Receiver Manufacturing-"
A new video on the ALMA development was released. This new version features the receiver which is a component to receive radio waves from target objects inside…
2015.11.12
Mitaka Open House Day 2015
On October 23 and 24, Mitaka Open House Day was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. The NAOJ Chile Observatory gave presentations of ALMA, including mini-lectures…
2015.11.06
NAOJ-ALMA All Hands Meeting
On October 16, NAOJ-ALMA All hands Meeting was held with the participation of all staff engaged in NAOJ ALMA Project. The attendees include the staff of the N…
2015.10.29
JAO Tour for Santiago Japanese School
On October 14, the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) welcomed 28 students from the 3rd to 9th grades of the Santiago Japanese School for their workplace study tour…
2015.09.24
Swordsmen in Atacama 2015
There are a wide variety of staff members working at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF), including astronomers to support observations, engineers to c…
2015.09.07
Nobeyama Open Campus 2015
On August 22, Nobeyama Open Campus 2015 was held at NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO). NAOJ Chile Observatory presented exhibitions showing the progress o…
2015.08.26
New projects selected for the ALMA Cycle 3 Early Science Observations
The scientific assessment of the 1578 science proposals submitted for ALMA Early Science Cycle 3 has been completed. The Proposal Review meeting -chaired by An…
2015.08.10
ALMA Agreement Signed by NAOJ and ASIAA
On July 27, 2015, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) in Taiwan signe…
2015.07.22
Artistic Apparition at ALMA
Observatory hosts monumental golf ball installation
The ALMA Observatory recently received its first art exhibit: a golf ball of enormous proportions, displayed alongside the antennas at an altitude of 5000 metr…
2015.07.13
TANABATA Lecture at Santiago Japanese School
After some rainy days over the weekend, Santiago had a nice and sunny weather on July 7, which is a day of a Japanese star festival called TANABATA to celebrat…
2015.06.17
Exhibition of ALMA MUSIC BOX at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
ALMA MUSIC BOX has been exhibited at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan) from May. ALMA MUSIC BOX is an artwork created from t…
2015.06.02
ALMA Booth at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015
The NAOJ Chile observatory exhibited the ALMA booth at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015, which was held at the international exhibition hall of Makuhari…
2015.05.08
ALMA Cycle 3 call for proposals attracts record number of applications
The ALMA Observatory’s Early Science Cycle 3 has attracted 1,582 proposals for observation time submitted by the international scientific community durin…
2015.04.22
New Video Released "ALMA Receiver Development -Receiver Mechanism-"
We are pleased to announce the release of a new video on the development of ALMA. In a radio telescope, radio waves from the universe are reflected by the ante…
2015.03.17
ALMA Opens For Public Visits
ALMA’s Operations Support Facility will open its doors to the public for the first time on 29 March 2015, offering members of the public a rare opportuni…
2015.03.13
Lunch Box for ALMA Staff Working at AOS
In ALMA, there are staff members working at a high-altitude site called Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 meters for the maintenance activities of observing …
2015.02.16
Summer Camp at Santiago Japanese School
On January 22, 2015, the Santiago Japanese School held a regular summer camp and star watching party for children in the lower grades of elementary school (23 …
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