2026.09.08
Watching a Massive Binary Assemble in Real Time
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have obtained the most detailed three-dimensional view yet of a massive binary star …
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2026.07.14
ALMA Band 8 Receiver Upgrade Successfully Passed the Preliminary Design Review
The preliminary design review of “Band 8v2,” a development project to upgrade the Band 8 receiver, one of the ten receiver units installed on ALMA, was held at…
2026.07.09
Can Organic Molecules Survive a Supernova Explosion? —First Detection of Hot Cores in a Supernova Remnant—
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered a stellar cradle of warm molecular gas surrounding a baby star in a …
2026.06.17
Toward a New Era of Astronomy: A New Step in Multi-Messenger Astronomy at Cosmological Distances - Gravitational Lensing Reveals a Connection Between Intense Star Formation 11 Billion Years Ago and High-Energy Neutrinos -
A remarkably bright galaxy affected by gravitational lensing, “Shadow Blaster,” was discovered through follow-up observations with several telescopes, includin…
2026.06.09
Hiroaki Imada Receives the 2026 Shoichiro Yoshida Memorial Nikon Astronomy Achievement Award
The 2026 Shoichiro Yoshida Memorial Nikon Astronomy Achievement Award, presented by the Foundation for Promotion of Astronomy, has been awarded to Hiroaki Imad…
2026.05.22
Cosmic Chaos Beats Magnetism in the Birth of Massive Star Clusters
An international team of astronomers has discovered that chaotic turbulence, rather than orderly magnetic fields, is the primary force shaping the seeds of mas…
2026.04.22
An Astronomer using ALMA Received the Young Scientists’ Award by MEXT
An astronomer conducting research with ALMA has been honored with the 2026 Young Scientists’ Award by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science a…
2026.04.15
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 unveiled, for the first time, how the infallin…
2026.04.07
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 driven by magnetic forces originating in its…
2026.03.19
Streamline feeding of a baby massive star
An international team captured an unprecedented view of gas streamers flowing into a forming high-mass star. Thanks to ALMA’s sharp vision, the team detected c…
2026.03.12
Student Honored for Research with ALMA
A University of Tokyo student has been honored with an award for her collaborative research paper based on ALMA observations.
2026.03.06
Largest image of its kind shows hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way
Astronomers have captured a complex network of cosmic gas in the central region of the Milky Way, in unprecedented area and detail. The rich dataset obtained w…
2026.02.25
ALMA Total Power GPU Spectrometer Passes Preliminary Design Review
The preliminary design review of Total Power GPU Spectrometer (TPGS) for the ALMA telescope has been successfully completed. TPGS is one of the major East Asia…
2026.01.13
Students Honored for Collaborative Research with ALMA Receiver Development Team
Two students from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) have received awards for their collaborative research with the NAOJ ALMA receiver development …
2026.01.08
Multiple Origins Behind The Extreme Star Formation In “Monster Galaxies”
An international research team has conducted detailed observations of three “monster galaxies” in the early Universe using the ALMA and the JWST, revealing tha…
2026.01.06
Kenichi Tadaki Selected for Prestigious Research Grant for ALMA-Based Study
Professor Kenichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has been selected for the 58th Research Grant (FY2025) in the Space and Earth Science category from the It…
2026.01.05
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, 11.5 billion years ago, was a huge, rapi…
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. Yet, the conditions for star formation in…
2025.11.18
Astronomers Discover a Superheated Star Factory in the Early Universe:Hot Dust Indicates the Rapid Growth of the Early Galaxy
This news is based on the press release from Chalmers University of Technology.
Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of…
2025.11.10
NAOJ and KASI Sign ALMA Collaboration MoU Amendment
NAOJ Director General Mamoru Doi (left) and KASI President Jang-Hyun Park (right) (credit: KASI). The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the…
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Watching a Massive Binary Assemble in Real Time
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Student Honored for Collaborative Research with ALMA Receiver Development Team
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ALMA Band 8 Receiver Upgrade Successfully Passed the Preliminary Design Review
The preliminary design review of “Band 8v2,” a development project to upgrade the Band 8 receiver, one of the ten recei…
