2019.10.15
ALMA explores a Cosmic Jellyfish
Using the detailed eyes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have mapped the intense ta…
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2019.10.11
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to ALMA Staff for the First Black Hole Picture
The 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to a group of scientists for the achievement made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that succ…
2019.10.09
Rarest form of CO Provides Hint to the Birth of Planets around Young Star
Astronomers have discovered the rarest stable carbon monoxide isotope molecule, 13C17O, in the dust and gas disk around a young star usin…
2019.10.04
Massive Filaments Fuel the Growth of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research has used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) a…
2019.09.13
Nobeyama Radio Observatory Open Campus 2019
In the pleasant sunny weather, the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory Open Campus 2019 was held in Nobeyama on Saturday, August 24. Reflecting the sun, shining wh…
2019.08.30
NAOJ Director General’s Awards Given to Two ALMA-Related Groups
A ceremony for the 2018 NAOJ Director General’s Awards was held at NAOJ Mitaka Campus on July 30th, 2018. This year, the two awards were given for remarkable a…
2019.08.27
ALMA Shows What’s Inside Jupiter’s Storms
Swirling clouds, big colorful belts, giant storms — the beautiful and turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter has been showcased many times. But what is going on below…
2019.08.08
ALMA Identified Dark Ancestors of Massive Elliptical Galaxies - Unexpected Hidden Galaxies Question Theories of Universe Evolution
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) identified 39 faint galaxies that are not seen with the Hubble Space Telescope’s deep…
2019.07.30
Almost 400 High-Priority Proposals for New ALMA Observing Cycle
On October 1, 2019, a new observing cycle will kick off at ALMA. Cycle 7 will have 4,300 hours available for observations with the 12 meters diameter antennas …
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…
2019.07.22
Associate Professor Alvaro Gonzalez Wins 8th NINS Young Researcher Award
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
“Moon Forming” Circumplanetary Disk Discovered around Young Planet in Distant Star System
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
2019 Solar Eclipse Image from ALMA
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
Massive Stars Grow Same Way as Light Stars, Just Bigger
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
Planetary Rings of Uranus ‘Glow’ in Cold Light
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
ALMA Pinpoints the Formation Site of Planet around Nearest Young Star
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
ALMA Finds Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies
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
500 Visitors Attend ALMA Booth at Japan Geoscience Union Meeting
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
ALMA Discovers Aluminum around Young Star
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
Chilean Senate Distinguishes ALMA For 1st Image of Black Hole
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…
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