2024.04.22
A Young ALMA Researcher Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
A young ALMA researcher, Dr. Takuma Izumi at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2024 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Educati…
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2024.02.15
In Commemoration of ALMA's 10th Anniversary, Young Astronomers Visit the ALMA Site
ALMA is celebrating 10 years of full-scale operation in 2023. In December 2023, an international conference was held in Puerto Varas, Chile, to take a look bac…
2023.12.22
A Dancing Ancient Galactic Disk at a Peak of Star Formation
This article is based on the press release issued by the Australian National University and otherson December 22, 2023. Please see https://reporter.anu.edu.au/…
2023.12.04
NAOJ Director General and NAOJ ALMA Project Director visit University of Chile
NAOJ has recently signed an agreement with University of Chile / UNTEC (Foundation for Technological Transfer) for the production of hardware components for th…
2023.11.21
The ALMA Board shows its gratitude to NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta
The ALMA Board held its November 2023 meeting on November 15-17, 2023, at the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) Santiago Central Office (SCO). This was the last mee…
2023.11.14
New US & Japan Partnership Will Make the World’s Most Powerful Telescope Even More Sensitive
The National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) are joining efforts to …
2023.10.06
Astronomers Discover First Step Toward Planet Formation
An international research team led by Project Assistant Professor Satoshi Ohashi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has conducted high-re…
2023.09.25
Sho Masui Receives Electronics Society Student Award for Presentation Related to ALMA Development
Sho Masui, a project researcher fellow at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), received the Electronics Society Student Award at the 2023 Society Conference o…
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…
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…
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A Young ALMA Researcher Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
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A young ALMA researcher, Dr. Takuma Izumi at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2024 Commendation for Science a…
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Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'Sneezes' Tell us How You Are
Astronomers have discovered the remnants of powerful ‘sneezes’ expelling gas, dust, and electromagnetic energy around s…
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A Glimpse by Molecules - a Production Line Inside a Busy Star Factory in a Starburst Galaxy
An international research team led by Sergio Martín of the European Southern Observatory/Joint ALMA Observatory, Nanase…
