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2014.12.12
Astronomers from around the world met in Japan to discuss the exciting scientific results from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio te…
2014.11.14
From October 27 through 29, ALMA/ASTE/Mopra Users’ Meeting was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus for three telescopes operated by the NAOJ Chile Observatory…
2014.10.29
On October 25, NAOJ Open House Day 2014 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. Under the clear autumn sky, the event attracted more than 4000 people. The ALMA boo…
2014.08.20
On August 17, 2014, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) and Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) signed an agreement concerning th…
2014.07.24
On June 17 and 18, the ASTE/ALMA Development Workshop 2014 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. A total of 62 researchers from 6 nations/regions attended the wo…
2014.07.15
On July 7, the Santiago Japanese School (with 44 students) held an annual lecture to celebrate TANABATA Festival, a Japanese star festival originating from the…
2014.06.20
From May 7 through 16, the East Asia ALMA Regional Center (EA ARC) held a preparatory meeting for ALMA Early Science Observations Cycle 2, which started from J…
2014.06.11
The largest astronomical observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has been included in the spectacular 360° panor…
2014.04.11
We are pleased to announce the release of a new film documenting the manufacturing process of the Japanese ALMA antenna. This film shows how the telescope moun…
2014.03.19
From March 10 through 14, an international meeting on the development of the data analysis pipeline for the ALMA Telescope was held at the ALMA Building in NAO…
2014.02.03
On January 23, the Santiago Japanese School (with 35 students) held a two-day summer camp in Santiago, Chile. About 20 students in the first to fourth grades s…
2014.01.07
Standing on the ALMA high site, we are overwhelmed by a vast expanse of the plateau of the Atacama Desert. Some people have impressions as if they are on Mars …
2013.12.19
The Good Design Special Award Ceremony 2013 was held by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) at The Ritz Carlton, Tokyo. Tetsuo Hasegawa, Director of …
2013.12.04
Venus (known as “the evening star”) is shining brightly in the dusk at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF at 2900 meters altitude) with litt…
2013.11.26
Comet ISON approaching the sun was captured at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF at 2900 m above sea level). The photo taken by a digital single-lens r…
2013.11.07
ALMA Morita Array, developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), received Good Design Gold Award at the Good Design Award 2013 sponsored …
2013.10.30
From October 30 through November 4, “Good Design Exhibition 2013” is held in Tokyo Midtown. The Morita Array is introduced at the exhibition of Goo…
2013.10.21
On October 18 and 19, the NAOJ Open House Day 2013 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus. This year’s event featured the ALMA Telescope, which started full …
2013.10.09
From September 10 through 12, the Astronomical Society of Japan (ASJ) held its annual fall meeting at Tohoku University (Kawauchi campus). The East Asian ALMA …
2013.10.01
On October 1, the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) announced that the Morita Array, a telescope array developed by Japan for ALMA, was selected for &#…
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
An international research team led by Professor Ken-ichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has made a groundbreaking d…
This article is based on the press release issued by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Univers…
