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2018.02.02
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
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
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
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
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 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected the faint molecular fingerprint of methyl chloride – a chemical commonl…
2017.09.28
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
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
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 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
“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
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…
2017.07.29
Saturn’s frigid moon Titan has a curious atmosphere. In addition to a hazy mixture of nitrogen and hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, Titan’s atmosphere als…
2017.07.05
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has used the Atacama Large …
2017.07.01
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers obtained a critical clue to an underlying problem: how are widely separated twin sta…
2017.06.28
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) have caused quite a stir with their recent observations of the supermassive black hole at…
2017.06.21
A black hole is an extraordinary object with extremely strong gravity, but when observed from Earth it would look like a tiny dot. To capture an image of a bla…
2017.06.15
ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life. This i…
2017.06.13
An international research team led by a Japanese astronomer has determined how the enigmatic gas flow from a massive baby star is launched. The team used the A…
2017.06.09
Companion Star Provides Chilling Power of ‘Coldest Object in the Universe’
NAOJ ALMA is exhibiting a booth at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting every year. This year’s event was held fro…
A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spira…
A team of international astronomers have embarked on an exciting new project to hunt for planets forming around young s…
