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2014.02.13
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 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
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
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…
2014.01.10
Planets form in disks around their host protostar, but when and how disks form is still an unanswered question. ALMA observations by a team of astronomers led …
2014.01.07
Standing on the ALMA high site, we are overwhelmed by a vast expanse of the plateau of the Atacama Desert. Some people have impressions as if they are on Mars …
2014.01.07
Striking new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope capture, for the first time, the remains of a recent supernova…
2013.12.27
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) achieved a major milestone in the construction of ALMA. In December 2013, NAOJ successfully completed the dev…
2013.12.19
The Good Design Special Award Ceremony 2013 was held by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) at The Ritz Carlton, Tokyo. Tetsuo Hasegawa, Director of …
2013.12.18
The ALMA Observatory’s Early Science Cycle 2 has attracted 1,382 proposals for observation time submitted by the international scientific community durin…
2013.12.04
Venus (known as “the evening star”) is shining brightly in the dusk at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF at 2900 meters altitude) with litt…
2013.11.26
Comet ISON approaching the sun was captured at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF at 2900 m above sea level). The photo taken by a digital single-lens r…
2013.11.22
Combining the capabilities of two powerful telescopes, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have e…
2013.11.07
ALMA Morita Array, developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), received Good Design Gold Award at the Good Design Award 2013 sponsored …
2013.11.01
On October 26 (Chilean Time), the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) successfully detected interference fringes from Callisto (a satellite of Jupiter) and Orion KL a…
2013.10.30
From October 30 through November 4, “Good Design Exhibition 2013” is held in Tokyo Midtown. The Morita Array is introduced at the exhibition of Goo…
2013.10.24
An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, a second-year master’s student of science at the University of Tokyo, and Kotaro Kohno, a professor…
2013.10.21
On October 18 and 19, the NAOJ Open House Day 2013 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka campus. This year’s event featured the ALMA Telescope, which started full …
2013.10.16
Two international teams of astronomers have used the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to focus on jets from the huge black hole…
2013.10.09
From September 10 through 12, the Astronomical Society of Japan (ASJ) held its annual fall meeting at Tohoku University (Kawauchi campus). The East Asian ALMA …
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…
