2025.09.25
Winding Motion of Planet-Forming Spirals Captured on Video for the First Time
An international research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI and the National Astronomi…
Cosmic Mysteries
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2025.08.08
The Universe’s Secret Harvest: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”
Super high-resolution ALMA and JWST observations unveil unexpected substructure and underlying gas dynamics in a faint, infant galaxy, offering fresh clues to …
2025.08.05
Discovery of Protoplanetary Disk Caught in Explosion Driven by Stellar Jet
A research team led by Masataka Aizawa of Ibaraki University studied a protoplanetary disk around the young star WSB 52 and its surrounding structures using AL…
2025.06.24
New Super-resolution Imaging Reveals the First Step of Planet Formation after Star Birth
A research team led by Ayumu Shoshi of Kyushu University and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) revealed protoplanetary disks …
2025.05.22
A Fierce Storm in a Giant Barred Spiral Galaxy 11 Billion Years Ago
A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe with ALMA…
2025.04.30
exoALMA Gives Astronomers A New Look At How Planets Are Formed: Beyond planet hunting, this survey will reveal the mechanics behind planet forming discs
A team of international astronomers have embarked on an exciting new project to hunt for planets forming around young stars. The exoALMA project, using the pow…
2025.03.10
Discovery of ‘Hot Gas’ near a Supermassive Black Hole 12.9 Billion Years Ago: New Possibilities for Finding Hidden Black Holes in the Early Universe
An international research team led by Professor Ken-ichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has made a groundbreaking discovery using the ALMA telescope. The t…
2025.02.12
Researchers find dark matter dominating in early universe galaxies
This article is based on the press release issued by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI) and the Kavli Instit…
2025.02.06
Magnetic Field in Planet Formation has been Successfully Observed
Based on ALMA multi-band observations of dust polarization, the magnetic field structure in a protoplanetary disk has been measured for the first time. A resea…
2025.01.10
Unveiling the properties of a primeval galaxy from 13.4 billion years ago
An international team led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan succesfully detected the emission of several atomic transitions fr…
2024.12.24
A Baby Star in Action: B335 Offers a Natural Laboratory for Astrochemistry
Scientists have taken an unprecedented step forward in understanding the chemical processes occurring as new stars form, thanks to observations of the variable…
2024.12.13
ALMA Reveals the Birthplace of a Planetary System: dust accumulation to form a new planet outside just-formed planets
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a high concentration of dust grains, …
2024.10.08
Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found
This article is a revised version. Please check the original press release by the European South Observatory here. This image shows the galaxy REBELS-25 as see…
2024.08.30
Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
Observations to date have discovered a number of supermassive black holes with masses exceeding a billion times that of the Sun in the early Universe, when the…
2024.04.11
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 stars in the process of forming. The team…
2024.03.28
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 Harada of the National Astronomical Obs…
2024.02.01
Gas on the run – ALMA spots the shadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar when the Universe was less than one billion years old
Theoretical predictions have been confirmed with the discovery of an outflow of molecular gas from a quasar when the Universe was less than a billion years old.
2024.01.25
M87* One Year Later: Proof of a persistent black hole shadow
This article is based on the press release issued by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration and others on January 18, 2024. Detailed Article M87* One …
2023.11.03
Supermassive Black Hole Feeding and Feedback are Finally Resolved at the Center of an Active Galaxy
An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has achieved a groundbreaking mil…
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…
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2025 9.25
Winding Motion of Planet-Forming Spirals Captured on Video for the First Time
An international research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at the Graduate University for Advanced Stud…
2025 8.8
The Universe’s Secret Harvest: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”
Super high-resolution ALMA and JWST observations unveil unexpected substructure and underlying gas dynamics in a faint,…
2025 8.5
Discovery of Protoplanetary Disk Caught in Explosion Driven by Stellar Jet
A research team led by Masataka Aizawa of Ibaraki University studied a protoplanetary disk around the young star WSB 52…
