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2017.05.17
We know that black holes are fascinating objects, capable of bending not only our minds but also reality itself. They squeeze matter into an extraordinarily mi…
2017.05.09
In 2014, astronomers were stunned by the ultra-high resolution image of HL Tauri (also called HL Tau) observed by ALMA, revealing a key element to unveil the f…
2017.05.09
Many people are curious about the existence of extraterrestrial life. In fact, we have already started to obtain some evidences of it. With the advancement of …
2017.04.20
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has made a new high-fidelity im…
2017.04.14
Right now, astronomers are attempting to take the first image of the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way — but what exa…
2017.04.13
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of …
2017.04.07
Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images. Around 500 years ago, a pair of adolescent protostars had a pe…
2017.04.05
At the centre of our galaxy lurks a cosmic monster: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* with a mass about four million times that of the Sun. Its g…
2017.03.31
As part of an ambitious experiment involving telescopes around the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is about to attempt to image …
2017.03.08
Astronomers have used ALMA to detect a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the Universe was only four percent of its present age. This galaxy…
2017.03.03
An international team of astronomers, led by Hyosun Kim in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has found a way of deriving…
2017.02.15
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive black hole and the gal…
2017.02.08
One of the big puzzles in astrophysics is how stars like the sun manage to form from collapsing molecular clouds in star-forming regions of the universe. The…
2016.12.21
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has begun observing in a new range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has been made possibl…
2016.12.14
Astronomers now know that our galaxy is teeming with planets, from rocky worlds roughly the size of Earth to gas giants bigger than Jupiter. Nearly every one o…
2016.12.05
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have for the first time, achieved a precise size measurement of small dust particl…
2016.11.07
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk o…
2016.10.27
For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a…
2016.10.13
A joint team of University of Tokyo researchers and their collaborators, using ALMA and other telescopes that utilize radio waves for space observation, reve…
2016.09.29
Astronomers have discovered a ‘hot molecular core’, a cocoon of molecules surrounding a newborn massive star, for the first time outside our Gala…
On September 15, 2026, Mr. Jun Sawada, Executive Chairman of NTT Inc. and Chairperson of the Committee on National Spac…
An international team brought a major ALMA survey to open a new window on how organic molecules take shape around young…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have obtained the most detailed three-dimens…
