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…
Cosmic Mysteries
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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…
2023.09.20
The Strongest Tag Team of the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA Captures the Core of the Most Distant Galaxy Protocluster
An international research team led by Assistant Professor Takuya Hashimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Researcher Javier Álvarez-Márquez (El Centro de…
2023.09.15
Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Multiple Ways Supermassive Black Holes Affect Host Galaxy
Using the ALMA telescope array, an international research team led by Toshiki Saito (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) and Taku Nakajima (Nagoya Univ…
2023.09.04
ALMA Detects Small-scale Fluctuations in Dark Matter Distribution:An important Step towards Understanding the Nature of Dark Matter
A research team led by Professor Kaiki Taro Inoue at Kindai University (Osaka, Japan) has discovered fluctuations in dark matter distribution in the Universe o…
2023.08.04
Triple Baby Stars Reach Out Three Arms to Feed with Materials
An international research team led by Jeong-Eun Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to …
2023.07.26
New Image Reveals Secrets of Planet Birth
A spectacular new image released by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using ESO’s Very Large…
2023.07.14
Stellar Cradles and Graves Seen in Farthest Galaxy Ever
A team of astronomers led by Professor Yoichi Tamura of Nagoya University has accomplished a remarkable feat by capturing a young galaxy from a period just 600…
2023.07.04
Baby Star Growing Fast through A 3-Layer Pancake-like Protostellar Disk
Protostellar disks play a crucial role in forming extrasolar systems, as they not only facilitate the growth of central protostars into mature stars, but also …
2023.06.20
Observations of High-Mass Star Seeds Defy Models
The team has revealed an unprecedented number of stellar seeds concealed within environments where high-mass stars (stars with masses eight times more than the…
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2026 7.14
ALMA Band 8 Receiver Upgrade Successfully Passed the Preliminary Design Review
The preliminary design review of “Band 8v2,” a development project to upgrade the Band 8 receiver, one of the ten recei…
2026 7.9
Can Organic Molecules Survive a Supernova Explosion? —First Detection of Hot Cores in a Supernova Remnant—
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered a stellar cradle of warm mol…
2026 6.17
Toward a New Era of Astronomy: A New Step in Multi-Messenger Astronomy at Cosmological Distances - Gravitational Lensing Reveals a Connection Between Intense Star Formation 11 Billion Years Ago and High-Energy Neutrinos -
A remarkably bright galaxy affected by gravitational lensing, “Shadow Blaster,” was discovered through follow-up observ…
