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2019.11.18
The origin of the cosmic explosion “AT2018cow” discovered on June 16, 2018 is still controversial; it could have originated from a tidal disruption or from a s…
2019.11.14
Two peacock-shaped gaseous clouds were revealed in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA…
2019.11.05
On Saturday, October 26, Mitaka Open House Day 2019 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus. The open house day is an annual event to open the NAOJ research facilit…
2019.10.29
The management team at the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) have decided to return to regular operations over the next few days, with regular work shifts and scien…
2019.10.23
Late last week, a decision to increase metro fares in Santiago metropolitan area triggered protest in Santiago, which have spread to other areas in Chile. Thes…
2019.10.18
Astronomers using ALMA have obtained an extremely high-resolution image showing two disks in which young stars are growing, fed by a complex pretzel-shaped net…
2019.10.15
Using the detailed eyes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have mapped the intense ta…
2019.10.11
The 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to a group of scientists for the achievement made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that succ…
2019.10.09
Astronomers have discovered the rarest stable carbon monoxide isotope molecule, 13C17O, in the dust and gas disk around a young star usin…
2019.10.04
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research has used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) a…
2019.09.13
In the pleasant sunny weather, the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory Open Campus 2019 was held in Nobeyama on Saturday, August 24. Reflecting the sun, shining wh…
2019.08.30
A ceremony for the 2018 NAOJ Director General’s Awards was held at NAOJ Mitaka Campus on July 30th, 2018. This year, the two awards were given for remarkable a…
2019.08.27
Swirling clouds, big colorful belts, giant storms — the beautiful and turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter has been showcased many times. But what is going on below…
2019.08.08
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) identified 39 faint galaxies that are not seen with the Hubble Space Telescope’s deep…
2019.07.30
On October 1, 2019, a new observing cycle will kick off at ALMA. Cycle 7 will have 4,300 hours available for observations with the 12 meters diameter antennas …
2019.07.25
On July 2, 2019, a total solar eclipse was observed in some parts of Chile. In the capital city Santiago, it was experienced as a major partial solar eclipse w…
2019.07.22
Alvaro Gonzalez, an associate professor and East Asia ALMA Project Manager at the NAOJ ALMA Project won the 8th National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) …
2019.07.12
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of a circumplanetary disk, the planet-girding b…
2019.07.11
The Total Solar Eclipse of July 2, 2019, was partially visible from the ALMA observatory with 76% of the Sun covered by the Moon. Against all the odds, despite…
2019.07.08
Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of a massive baby star. They found that it shares many common feature…
Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Thi…
The 2021 Shoichiro Yoshida Memorial/Nikon Astronomy Achievement Award was awarded to four members of the ALMA Project. …
An international astronomer team has discovered the most distant galaxy candidate to date, named HD1, which is about 13…
