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2020.04.28
How are stars and planets formed? This is one of the great mysteries that ALMA aims to unravel. Nami Sakai, Chief Scientist at RIKEN, is taking on this challen…
2020.04.21
A galactic visitor entered our solar system last year – interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. When astronomers pointed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arra…
2020.04.07
One year ago the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration h…
2020.03.27
Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submill…
2020.03.25
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found striking orbital geometries in protoplanetary disks around binary stars. W…
2020.03.05
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the very moment when an old star first starts t…
2020.02.21
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming dis…
2020.02.14
Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets of the atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.…
2020.02.06
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted a peculiar gas cloud that resulted from a confrontation between two star…
2020.01.23
Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a myst…
2020.01.16
ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. NGC 6240 as seen with ALMA (top) and the Hubble Space Telescope (bottom…
2019.12.27
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million years after the Big …
2019.12.23
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti…
2019.12.16
Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large M…
2019.12.05
For the first time, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have witnessed 3D motions of gas in a planet-forming disk. At thr…
2019.11.21
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected a pair of spiral arms in an accretion disk around a baby star. Interestingly…
2019.11.18
The origin of the cosmic explosion “AT2018cow” discovered on June 16, 2018 is still controversial; it could have originated from a tidal disruption or from a s…
2019.11.14
Two peacock-shaped gaseous clouds were revealed in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA…
2019.10.18
Astronomers using ALMA have obtained an extremely high-resolution image showing two disks in which young stars are growing, fed by a complex pretzel-shaped net…
2019.10.15
Using the detailed eyes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have mapped the intense ta…
Dr. Akimasa Kataoka at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the M…
Takafumi Tsukui at the Australian National University (currently Tohoku University) received Inoue Research Award for Y…
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
