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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…
2022.07.01
An international research team led by Tsuyoshi Tokuoka, a graduate student at Waseda University in Japan, has observed signs of rotation in a galaxy, which ex…
2022.06.17
An international research led by X. Lu, a former ALMA postdoc fellow at NAOJ and now an associate researcher at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, has used hig…
2022.05.31
A team of astronomers in Japan has discovered for the first time a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy with an energetic black hole at its center. The…
2022.05.12
Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence …
2022.04.19
The 2021 Shoichiro Yoshida Memorial/Nikon Astronomy Achievement Award was awarded to four members of the ALMA Project. Reason for the award: Realizatio…
2022.04.07
An international astronomer team has discovered the most distant galaxy candidate to date, named HD1, which is about 13.5 billion light-years away. This discov…
2022.03.30
A research article led by Dr. Takuya Hashimoto at the University of Tsukuba has received the 2021 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Excellent P…
2022.03.23
On February 22, 2022, the newly developed spectrometer for the Total Power Array of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA), also known as Morita Array, has successful…
NAOJ Director General Mamoru Doi (left) and KASI President Jang-Hyun Park (right) (credit: KASI). The National Astronom…
An international research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at the Graduate University for Advanced Stud…
Super high-resolution ALMA and JWST observations unveil unexpected substructure and underlying gas dynamics in a faint,…
