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2018.12.19
Takafumi Kojima, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Advanced Technology Center (NAOJ ATC) engaged in the development of a new recei…
2018.12.18
Researchers from RIKEN and JAXA have used observations from the ALMA radio observatory located in northern Chile and managed by an international consortium inc…
2018.12.12
Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is st…
2018.11.30
Based on computer simulations and new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have found that the rings of gas s…
2018.11.22
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has opened another new window to the Universe. Using its highest frequency receivers yet, researchers o…
2018.11.09
A billion light-years from Earth lies one of the Universe’s most massive structures, a giant elliptical galaxy surrounded by a sprawling cluster of other galax…
2018.11.05
On October 26 and 27, Mitaka Open House Day 2018 was held by NAOJ and other institutes with the main theme tiled “Rediscover the Solar System”. In sunny weathe…
2018.10.24
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has a chaotic surface terrain that is fractured and cracked, suggesting a long-standing history of geologic activity. A new series of…
2018.10.22
On Sunday, October 21, 2018, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) gave presentations of ALMA at the Inter-University Research Institute Corpor…
2018.09.13
Alvaro Gonzalez, an associate professor at NAOJ, will become new East Asia ALMA Project Manager as of October 1, 2018, taking over the position of the current …
2018.09.07
In a comfortable sunny weather, the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory Open Campus 2018 was held on Saturday, August 25. The NAOJ Chile Observatory presents the e…
2018.08.31
Although July is in the middle of winter in the southern hemisphere, TANABATA, a star festival of summer, is still an important annual event for the local Japa…
2018.08.30
Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimete…
2018.08.13
The next observation cycle of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Cycle 6, is the most demanded one to date, with proposals for more than …
2018.07.31
Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a form, or isotopologue of aluminum monofluoride (26AlF).…
2018.07.24
On July 5, 2018, at the Hitotshubashi Hall, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) held a ceremony to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fo…
2018.07.19
ALMA is approaching completion of its originally envisaged capabilities and, within the first five years of operations, the original fundamental science goals …
2018.06.27
Miraikan (the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) opened a new permanent exhibition which presents the technologies and observation results of …
2018.06.21
An international research team, led by Dr. Ruobing Dong at University of Arizona in USA and in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) …
2018.06.15
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star HD 163296. Usin…
An international team led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan succesfully detected the e…
On December 11, a lecture organized by the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern was held as part…
The preliminary design review for the new Data Transmission System (DTS) for the ALMA Telescope has been completed succ…
