2023.07.04
Baby Star Growing Fast through A 3-Layer Pancake-like Protostellar Disk
Protostellar disks play a crucial role in forming extrasolar systems, as they not only facilitate the growth of central protostars into mature stars, but also …
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2023.07.04
Protostellar disks play a crucial role in forming extrasolar systems, as they not only facilitate the growth of central protostars into mature stars, but also …
2023.06.28
An international research team led by Nagayoshi Ohashi at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan) used the Atacama Large Millim…
2023.06.20
The team has revealed an unprecedented number of stellar seeds concealed within environments where high-mass stars (stars with masses eight times more than the…
2023.06.12
During their recent visit to Chile, NINS President Maki Kawai and NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta visited the ALMA site on May 31st, together with a Japanes…
2023.06.07
From left to right: NINS President Kawai, Ambassador Julio Bravo, and NAOJ Director General Tsuneta (Photo: Goro Watanabe/NINS) From May 29 to June 2, 2023 (lo…
2023.05.30
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the ALMA telescope, which began full-scale operations in March 2013. The ALMA telescope was jointly constructed and is …
2023.05.12
For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful je…
2023.04.27
ALMA’s future science goals and enhancements of the telescope capabilities necessary to achieve them have been discussed in collaboration with the domestic and…
2023.03.16
Observations of water in the disk forming around protostar V883 Ori have unlocked clues about the formation of comets and planetesimals in our own Solar System
2023.03.02
An international research team has discovered the first example of a supernova, known as SN 2018ivc, showing an unprecedented rebrightening at millimeter wavel…
2023.02.03
Astronomers revealed fast gas outflows from a baby star strongly colliding with nearby dense gas where a group of baby stars are being born. The result suggest…
2023.01.20
The high resolution of the ALMA telescope has revealed that magnetic fields where massive stars are born play an important role in how matter is supplied to th…
2023.01.11
January 11, 2023 | Science
Astronomers have found a way to directly measure the amount of gas in protoplanetary disks without needing to make a…
2022.12.09
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, allowing astrophysicists to observe intense gamma rays in short durations. Gamma-ray bursts …
2022.11.24
In conjunction with the ALMA Board meeting held in Santiago (Chile) on November 14-18, 2022, NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta made courtesy visits to the Emb…
2022.11.22
At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole. But not all supermassive black holes are alike: there are many types. Quasars, or quasi-st…
2022.10.26
The NAOJ ALMA project and Advanced Technology Center have successfully fabricated corrugated horns by all-metal 3D-printing for the ALMA Band 1 receiver (Radio…
2022.08.29
Wide-field far-infrared image of the Small Magellanic Cloud obtained with the Herschel Space Observatory (left). ALMA image of the molecular outflow from the b…
2022.08.19
Ground-breaking 2014 HL Tau observational data from ALMA has been cited in more than 1,000 scientific studies in the past 7.5 years, aiding in major breakthrou…
2022.08.12
A research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan, has discovered that the abundances of dif…
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
An international research team led by Professor Ken-ichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has made a groundbreaking d…
This article is based on the press release issued by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Univers…