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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…
2017.07.21
The Santiago Japanese School held its annual TANABATA lecture on July 6, 2017. The speaker this year was Seiichi Sakamoto, a professor at the NAOJ Chile Obser…
2017.07.10
After a competitive selection process that began in January 2017, the international governing board of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) …
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…
2017.06.15
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
NAOJ ALMA exhibits a booth at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting every year. This year’s event was held from May 20 through 25 jointly with the American Geophy…
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…
2017.04.28
ALMA has reached a new record. Astronomers from almost all over the world worked against the clock to present their observation proposals on time for the new c…
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…
2017.04.13
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of …
2017.04.10
On February 20 and 21, 2017, two-day ALMA ACA Total Power (TP) Array Spectrometer Preliminary Design Review (PDR) was held at the Korea Astronomy and Space Sci…
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…
2017.03.27
The Society for Promotion of Space Science (SPSS) gave the 9th SPSS Award to Joten Okamoto, an NAOJ fellow who is engaged in research activities at the NAOJ C…
2017.03.17
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully imaged a radio “hole” around a galaxy cluster 4.8 billion li…
2017.03.14
An annular solar eclipse took place in the morning of February 26 in Southern Chile. It was observed in Santiago from 9:20 am to 11:50 am as a partial solar e…
2017.03.08
Astronomers have used ALMA to detect a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the Universe was only four percent of its present age. This galaxy…
2017.03.03
An international team of astronomers, led by Hyosun Kim in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has found a way of deriving…
This article is based on the press release issued by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Univers…
Based on ALMA multi-band observations of dust polarization, the magnetic field structure in a protoplanetary disk has b…
An international team led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan succesfully detected the e…
