2014.08.20
NINS and KASI Sign Agreement on ALMA
On August 17, 2014, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) and Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) signed an agreement concerning th…
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2014.08.12
ALMA Confirms Comets Forge Organic Molecules in Their Dusty Atmospheres
An international team of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made incredible 3D images of the ghostly atmospheres surr…
2014.08.06
ALMA Pinpoints Pluto to Help Guide NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are making high-precision measurements of Pluto’s location and orbit around the…
2014.07.31
ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Disks
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas disks around the two young stars in t…
2014.07.24
ASTE/ALMA Development Workshop 2014
On June 17 and 18, the ASTE/ALMA Development Workshop 2014 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. A total of 62 researchers from 6 nations/regions attended the wo…
2014.07.15
TANABATA Lecture at Santiago Japanese School
On July 7, the Santiago Japanese School (with 44 students) held an annual lecture to celebrate TANABATA Festival, a Japanese star festival originating from the…
2014.07.03
Dynamical Star-Forming Gas Interaction Witnessed by ALMA
Overview Dynamical interaction of star-forming gas was found in a star-forming region by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (…
2014.06.20
EA ARC Preparatory Meeting for Cycle 2
From May 7 through 16, the East Asia ALMA Regional Center (EA ARC) held a preparatory meeting for ALMA Early Science Observations Cycle 2, which started from J…
2014.06.16
Final ALMA Antenna Arrives on the Chajnantor Plateau
The final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project has been taken up to the high-level site at the ALMA Observatory, 5.000 m…
2014.06.12
Gigantic Explosion Buried in Dust: ALMA Probes Environment around Gamma Ray Bursts
Abstract For the first time, a group of Japanese researchers detected radio emission from molecular gas in galaxies hosting gamma ray bursts (GRBs), the brig…
2014.06.11
Google conducts virtual tour of ALMA
The largest astronomical observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has been included in the spectacular 360° panor…
2014.05.07
Outcome of the Proposal Review Process, Cycle 2
The scientific assessment of the 1381 science proposals submitted for ALMA Early Science Cycle 2 has been completed. Seventy-eight science assessors from all o…
2014.04.11
ALMA Antenna Mount Manufacturing Film Released
We are pleased to announce the release of a new film documenting the manufacturing process of the Japanese ALMA antenna. This film shows how the telescope moun…
2014.03.19
Data Analysis Pipeline Development Meeting
From March 10 through 14, an international meeting on the development of the data analysis pipeline for the ALMA Telescope was held at the ALMA Building in NAO…
2014.03.10
Crashing Comets Explain Surprise Gas Around Young Star—ALMA reveals an enigmatic gas clump in debris disk around Beta Pictoris
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in northern Chile have today announced the discovery of an unexpected clump…
2014.03.03
All NAOJ ALMA Receivers Shipped Out
On February 18, the NAOJ Advanced Technology Center shipped out the last seven ALMA Band 10 receivers to Chile. This marks the completion of delivery of a tota…
2014.02.13
Commentary on the press release "A Drastic Chemical Change Occurring in Birth of Planetary System: Has the Solar System also Experienced it?"
Written by Masaaki Hiramatsu, the Education and Public Outreach Officer at NAOJ Chile Observatory Stars are formed by the contraction of interstellar gas an…
2014.02.13
A Drastic Chemical Change Occurring in Birth of Planetary System: Has the Solar System also Experienced it?
A star is formed by gravitational contraction of interstellar gas (mostly H2) and dust. Even after the birth of a protostar (a baby star), the gas and dust …
2014.02.03
Star Watching Party at Santiago Japanese School
On January 23, the Santiago Japanese School (with 35 students) held a two-day summer camp in Santiago, Chile. About 20 students in the first to fourth grades s…
2014.01.17
ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System
Abstract A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained a firm evidence of formation of a giant planetary system around a young star by the observations with th…
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