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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’
2017.06.01
Can you imagine yourself hearing only the bass of a music recording? Or only seeing objects of a particular colour? Well, in a way, you experience this every d…
2017.05.19
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of t…
2017.05.17
We know that black holes are fascinating objects, capable of bending not only our minds but also reality itself. They squeeze matter into an extraordinarily mi…
2017.05.09
In 2014, astronomers were stunned by the ultra-high resolution image of HL Tauri (also called HL Tau) observed by ALMA, revealing a key element to unveil the f…
2017.05.09
Many people are curious about the existence of extraterrestrial life. In fact, we have already started to obtain some evidences of it. With the advancement of …
2017.04.20
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has made a new high-fidelity im…
2017.04.14
Right now, astronomers are attempting to take the first image of the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way — but what exa…
2017.04.13
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of …
2017.04.07
Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images. Around 500 years ago, a pair of adolescent protostars had a pe…
2017.04.05
At the centre of our galaxy lurks a cosmic monster: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* with a mass about four million times that of the Sun. Its g…
A University of Tokyo student has been honored with an award for her collaborative research paper based on ALMA observa…
Astronomers have captured a complex network of cosmic gas in the central region of the Milky Way, in unprecedented area…
The preliminary design review of Total Power GPU Spectrometer (TPGS) for the ALMA telescope has been successfully compl…
