2018.06.15
ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star HD 163296. Usin…
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2018.05.29
Universe Observed through Visual Acuity of 120,000/20 [vol.3] Observing Solar System Objects with ALMA
While ALMA is capable of capturing the microwave from the most distant objects 13 billion light years away, ALMA observations are also made focused on our sola…
2018.05.17
ALMA Finds Oxygen 13.28 Billion Light-Years Away - Most Distant Oxygen Indicates Mature Nature of a Young Galaxy
Astronomers detected a faint but definite signal of oxygen in a galaxy located 13.28 billion light-years away from us, through observations using the Atacama L…
2018.04.26
Astronomers Witness Galaxy Megamerger: Cosmic pileup forging galaxy cluster in the early universe
Peering deep into space — 90 percent of the way across the observable universe — astronomers have witnessed the beginnings of a gargantuan cosmic p…
2018.03.07
ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filame…
2018.02.26
Powerful Flare from Star Proxima Centauri Detected with ALMA - Puts habitability of nearby system into question
Space weather emitted by Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our sun, may make that system rather inhospitable to life after all. Using data from the Atacama…
2018.02.20
No relation between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy!? - The co-evolution mystery deepened by a new ALMA observation
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe an active galaxy with a strong ionized gas outflow from the galactic center, a team le…
2018.02.14
Rotating Dusty Gaseous Donut around an Active Supermassive Black Hole
High resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black…
2018.02.02
Universe Observed through Visual Acuity of 120,000/20 [vol.2] Searching First Galaxy in the Universe
When and how were galaxies with a hundred billion stars born in the universe?
This is one of the biggest mysteries that remain unsolved in modern astron…
2017.12.07
Massive Primordial Galaxies Found Swimming in Vast Ocean of Dark Matter
Astronomers expect that the first galaxies, those that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, would share many similarities with some of t…
2017.11.10
Winds blowing off a dying star
Stars like our Sun eject large amounts of gas and dust into space, containing various elements and compounds. Asymptotic giant branch — AGB — phase…
2017.11.06
Forest of Molecular Signals in Star Forming Galaxy
Astronomers found a rich molecular reservoir in the heart of an active star-forming galaxy with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Among …
2017.10.24
Crescent and Perfect Rings Signal Formation of Planet
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took an impressive image of V1247 Orionis, a young, hot star surrounded by a dynamic ring of gas and dust, …
2017.10.03
Astronomers Discover Traces of Methyl Chloride around Infant Stars and Nearby Comet - Dashing Hopes Molecule Could Point to Life on Other Planets
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected the faint molecular fingerprint of methyl chloride – a chemical commonl…
2017.09.28
First Detection of an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Milky Way
An image of clouds accelerating due to gravitational scattering caused by the intermediate-mass black hole. Credit: Tomoharu Oka (Keio University) Professor To…
2017.09.21
Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble
Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae. These observa…
2017.09.11
Explosive Birth of Stars Swells Galactic Cores - ALMA spots transforming disk galaxies
Astronomers found that active star formation upswells galaxies, like yeast helps bread rise. Using three powerful telescopes on the ground and in orbit, they o…
2017.08.31
ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies
ALMA has been used to detect turbulent reservoirs of cold gas surrounding distant starburst galaxies. By detecting CH+ for the first time in the distant Univer…
2017.08.07
Taking the First Picture of a Black Hole [8] Challenges in obtaining an image of a SMBH
“Seeing a black hole” has been a long-cherished desire for many astronomers, but now, thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global mm-VLBI Array …
2017.08.02
Running Out of Gas: Gas Loss Puts Brakes on Stellar Baby Boom
Astronomers observed a galaxy cluster 9.4 billion light-years away using the ALMA radio telescope array and found evidence that hot gas strips away the cold ga…
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2026 1.6
Kenichi Tadaki Selected for Prestigious Research Grant for ALMA-Based Study
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Professor Kenichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has been selected for the 58th Research Grant (FY2025) in the Spac…
2026 1.5
Giant Spiral Galaxy” Discovered 11.5 Billion Years Ago
A research team led by a researcher at Nagoya University has discovered that a “monster galaxy” in the early Universe, …
2025 12.10
Observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Insights into Star Formation in Early-Universe-like Environments
In today’s Universe, stars like our Sun form within long, thread-like structures called filamentary molecular clouds. Y…
