2024.04.22
A Young ALMA Researcher Won Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
A young ALMA researcher, Dr. Takuma Izumi at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2024 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Educati…
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2024.04.11
Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'Sneezes' Tell us How You Are
Astronomers have discovered the remnants of powerful ‘sneezes’ expelling gas, dust, and electromagnetic energy around stars in the process of forming. The team…
2024.03.28
A Glimpse by Molecules - a Production Line Inside a Busy Star Factory in a Starburst Galaxy
An international research team led by Sergio Martín of the European Southern Observatory/Joint ALMA Observatory, Nanase Harada of the National Astronomical Obs…
2024.02.15
In Commemoration of ALMA's 10th Anniversary, Young Astronomers Visit the ALMA Site
ALMA is celebrating 10 years of full-scale operation in 2023. In December 2023, an international conference was held in Puerto Varas, Chile, to take a look bac…
2024.02.01
Gas on the run – ALMA spots the shadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar when the Universe was less than one billion years old
Theoretical predictions have been confirmed with the discovery of an outflow of molecular gas from a quasar when the Universe was less than a billion years old.
2023.12.22
A Dancing Ancient Galactic Disk at a Peak of Star Formation
This article is based on the press release issued by the Australian National University and others on December 22, 2023. Please see https://reporter.anu.edu.au…
2023.12.04
NAOJ Director General and NAOJ ALMA Project Director visit University of Chile
NAOJ has recently signed an agreement with University of Chile / UNTEC (Foundation for Technological Transfer) for the production of hardware components for th…
2023.11.21
The ALMA Board shows its gratitude to NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta
The ALMA Board held its November 2023 meeting on November 15-17, 2023, at the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) Santiago Central Office (SCO). This was the last mee…
2023.11.15
ALMA Achieves Highest Resolution Yet —With a combination of ALMA’s highest frequency Band 10 receivers and an array configuration with a baseline length of up to 16 km
ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) has achieved its highest resolution since it began operation. An international team for extension of optimi…
2023.11.14
New US & Japan Partnership Will Make the World’s Most Powerful Telescope Even More Sensitive
The National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) are joining efforts to …
2023.11.03
Supermassive Black Hole Feeding and Feedback are Finally Resolved at the Center of an Active Galaxy
An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has achieved a groundbreaking mil…
2023.10.06
Astronomers Discover First Step Toward Planet Formation
An international research team led by Project Assistant Professor Satoshi Ohashi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has conducted high-re…
2023.09.25
Sho Masui Receives Electronics Society Student Award for Presentation Related to ALMA Development
Sho Masui, a project researcher fellow at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), received the Electronics Society Student Award at the 2023 Society Conference o…
2023.09.20
The Strongest Tag Team of the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA Captures the Core of the Most Distant Galaxy Protocluster
An international research team led by Assistant Professor Takuya Hashimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Researcher Javier Álvarez-Márquez (El Centro de…
2023.09.15
Top-Down and Bottom-Up – Multiple Ways Supermassive Black Holes Affect Host Galaxy
Using the ALMA telescope array, an international research team led by Toshiki Saito (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) and Taku Nakajima (Nagoya Univ…
2023.09.04
ALMA Detects Small-scale Fluctuations in Dark Matter Distribution ---An important step towards understanding the nature of dark matter---
A research team led by Professor Kaiki Taro Inoue at Kindai University (Osaka, Japan) has discovered fluctuations in dark matter distribution in the Universe o…
2023.08.14
New ALMA receivers that will probe our cosmic origins successfully tested
An international team of astronomers and engineers at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first measurements using new receiv…
2023.08.04
Triple Baby Stars Reach Out Three Arms to Feed with Materials
An international research team led by Jeong-Eun Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to …
2023.07.26
New image reveals secrets of planet birth
A spectacular new image released by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using ESO’s Very Large…
2023.07.14
Stellar Cradles and Graves Seen in Farthest Galaxy Ever
A team of astronomers led by Professor Yoichi Tamura of Nagoya University has accomplished a remarkable feat by capturing a young galaxy from a period just 600…
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2025 3.31
ACA Total Power Array Spectrometer Development Team Receives NAOJ Director General’s Award
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
2025 3.10
Discovery of ‘Hot Gas’ near a Supermassive Black Hole 12.9 Billion Years Ago: New Possibilities for Finding Hidden Black Holes in the Early Universe
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