2019.07.25
Solar Eclipse Watching Party at NAOJ Santiago Office
On July 2, 2019, a total solar eclipse was observed in some parts of Chile. In the capital city Santiago, it was experienced as a major partial solar eclipse w…
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2019.07.25
On July 2, 2019, a total solar eclipse was observed in some parts of Chile. In the capital city Santiago, it was experienced as a major partial solar eclipse w…
2019.07.22
Alvaro Gonzalez, an associate professor and East Asia ALMA Project Manager at the NAOJ ALMA Project won the 8th National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) …
2019.07.12
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of a circumplanetary disk, the planet-girding b…
2019.07.11
The Total Solar Eclipse of July 2, 2019, was partially visible from the ALMA observatory with 76% of the Sun covered by the Moon. Against all the odds, despite…
2019.07.08
Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of a massive baby star. They found that it shares many common feature…
2019.06.28
The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — and they stand out as surprisingly bright in ne…
2019.06.26
Researchers using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) found a small dust concentration in the disk around TW Hydrae, the nearest young star. It…
2019.06.18
Researchers using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and dust from a galaxy in the early Universe 13 billi…
2019.06.10
The Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2019 (JpGU 2019) was held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City for five days from Sunday, May 26 through Thursday, May 30. The Jp…
2019.05.16
Researchers using ALMA data discovered an aluminum-bearing molecule for the first time around a young star. Aluminum rich inclusions found in meteorites are so…
2019.05.08
The Honorable Senate of Chile invited representatives from the ALMA observatory to its session held today, April 17, in recognition of its role in obtaining t…
2019.04.22
On April 2, 2019, the Proposal Preparation Meeting for ALMA Cycle 7 was held in the NAOJ Mitaka Campus with participation of 22 people in the venue and some re…
2019.04.10
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to ca…
2019.03.28
Scientists from the RIKEN in Japan, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Virginia in the USA and collaborators have made observati…
2019.03.20
Researchers have detected a radio signal from abundant interstellar dust in MACS0416_Y1, a galaxy 13.2 billion light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. …
2019.03.14
Researchers have spotted the formation sites of planets around a young star resembling our Sun. Two rings of dust around the star, at distances comparable to t…
2019.02.28
Astronomers have detected a stealthy black hole from its effects on an interstellar gas cloud. This intermediate mass black hole is one of over 100 million qui…
2019.02.26
Astronomers have unveiled the enigmatic origins of two different gas streams from a baby star. Using ALMA, they found that the slow outflow and the high speed …
2019.02.08
New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years from Earth in the disk surrounding a massive young sta…
2019.02.05
Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori. A sudden outburst from this star is releasing molecules …
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…