2023.02.03
Outflows from Baby Star Affect Nearby Star Formation
Astronomers revealed fast gas outflows from a baby star strongly colliding with nearby dense gas where a group of baby stars are being born. The result suggest…
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2023.01.20
A 1000x Sharper View - Are Magnetically Stabilized Streamers a Fundamental Building Block in High-Mass Star Formation?
The high resolution of the ALMA telescope has revealed that magnetic fields where massive stars are born play an important role in how matter is supplied to th…
2023.01.11
Model-Independent Method to Weigh Protoplanetary Disks
January 11, 2023 | Science
Astronomers have found a way to directly measure the amount of gas in protoplanetary disks without needing to make a…
2022.12.09
Measuring Gamma-Ray Bursts' Hidden Energy Unearths Clues to the Evolution of the Universe
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, allowing astrophysicists to observe intense gamma rays in short durations. Gamma-ray bursts …
2022.11.22
INTERNATIONAL TEAM OBSERVES INNERMOST STRUCTURE OF QUASAR JET
At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole. But not all supermassive black holes are alike: there are many types. Quasars, or quasi-st…
2022.08.29
Birth cry from a baby star in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Wide-field far-infrared image of the Small Magellanic Cloud obtained with the Herschel Space Observatory (left). ALMA image of the molecular outflow from the b…
2022.08.19
ALMA’s 2014 Ground-Breaking HL Tau Results Have Appeared in Over 1,000 Scientific Papers in Less Than a Decade
Ground-breaking 2014 HL Tau observational data from ALMA has been cited in more than 1,000 scientific studies in the past 7.5 years, aiding in major breakthrou…
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…
2022.07.01
Capturing the Onset of Galaxy Rotation in the Early Universe
An international research team led by Tsuyoshi Tokuoka, a graduate student at Waseda University in Japan, has observed signs of rotation in a galaxy, which ex…
2022.05.31
Unknown structure in galaxy revealed by high contrast imaging
A team of astronomers in Japan has discovered for the first time a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy with an energetic black hole at its center. The…
2022.03.02
ALMA detects nitrogen and oxygen radio waves emitted by a galaxy 12.9 billion years ago
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully detected radio waves emitted by nitrogen and oxygen from a galaxy that existed 12.9 billio…
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…
2021.12.02
Stellar Cocoon with Organic Molecules at the Edge of our Galaxy
For the first time, astronomers have detected a newborn star and the surrounding cocoon of complex organic molecules at the edge of our Galaxy, which is known …
2021.11.15
Astronomers make most distant detection yet of fluorine in star-forming galaxy
A new discovery is shedding light on how fluorine — an element found in our bones and teeth as fluoride — is forged in the Universe. Using the Atacama Large Mi…
2021.11.08
ALMA Scientists Detect Signs of Water in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Water has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early Universe, according to new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (…
2021.11.04
A Cosmic Whodunit: ALMA Study Confirms What’s Robbing Galaxies of Their Star-Forming Gas
Astronomers examining the nearby Universe with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have just completed the largest high-resolut…
2021.10.07
First ALMA Animation of Circling Twin Young Stars
Researchers analyzed the accumulated data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and depicted the motion of a young twin star system XZ T…
2021.09.30
ALMA Scientists Uncover the Mystery of Early Massive Galaxies Running on Empty
Early massive galaxies—those that formed in the three billion years following the Big Bang —should have contained large amounts of cold hydrogen gas, the fuel …
2021.09.23
Unveiling Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn That Were Hiding Behind the Dust
While investigating the data of young, distant galaxies observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Yoshinobu Fudamoto from Waseda Universi…
2021.09.15
Untangling the Formation of Planetary Systems with Deuterium
An international research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the distribution of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in plan…
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2026 4.22
An Astronomer using ALMA Received the Young Scientists’ Award by MEXT
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An astronomer conducting research with ALMA has been honored with the 2026 Young Scientists’ Award by Japan’s Ministry …
2026 4.15
Unveiling the Mystery of Protoplanetary Disk Formation Around Young Stars
An international team led by Indrani Das of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), has unveil…
2026 4.7
ALMA Reveals Magnetically Driven Disk Wind in the Protostar
An international research team using ALMA has discovered compelling evidence that winds from a young protostar are driv…
