2021.11.08
ALMA Scientists Detect Signs of Water in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Water has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early Universe, according to new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (…
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2021.11.04
A Cosmic Whodunit: ALMA Study Confirms What’s Robbing Galaxies of Their Star-Forming Gas
Astronomers examining the nearby Universe with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have just completed the largest high-resolut…
2021.10.20
Star forming region: an rich reservoir of large organic molecules
Proteins are polymers of amino acids joined together by the peptide bond -NHCO-. Peptide bonds are not only the ubiquity structures in proteins but also the ch…
2021.10.11
ALMA celebrates 10 years of science
At ALMA, we are celebrating doubly: on the one hand, October is the month of Science in Chile, and, on the other, we commemorate in ALMA the ten years since th…
2021.10.07
First ALMA Animation of Circling Twin Young Stars
Researchers analyzed the accumulated data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and depicted the motion of a young twin star system XZ T…
2021.09.30
ALMA Scientists Uncover the Mystery of Early Massive Galaxies Running on Empty
Early massive galaxies—those that formed in the three billion years following the Big Bang —should have contained large amounts of cold hydrogen gas, the fuel …
2021.09.27
ALMA celebrates 10 years of its first image with a contest to name its antennas
Humanity’s most complex terrestrial astronomical observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is about to celebrate ten years since it…
2021.09.23
Unveiling Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn That Were Hiding Behind the Dust
While investigating the data of young, distant galaxies observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Yoshinobu Fudamoto from Waseda Universi…
2021.09.15
Untangling the Formation of Planetary Systems with Deuterium
An international research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the distribution of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in plan…
2021.09.08
First Light with the ALMA Band 1 Receiver
An international team has developed, assembled, and integrated a new set of receivers for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Band 1 r…
2021.08.30
Name an ALMA Antenna: 10th Anniversary of the First ALMA Image
Humanity’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is about to celebrate 10 years since it of…
2021.08.23
Almost 15K Reviews for the Most Competitive Proposals Process to Observe with ALMA
The new ALMA cycle of observations, Cycle 8, was one of the most competitive to date. The requested hours for observation in the 12-m Array exceed by six times…
2021.08.11
ALMA Finds Super-Fast Rotation of Baby Star’s Jet
It is known that gas jets are ejected from a baby star, but it was not clear how the jets are formed. By observing the rotation of the jets in detail and combi…
2021.07.30
ALMA Observes Interplay between Magnetic Force and Gravity in Massive Star Formation
The magnetic field is part of one of the four fundamental forces in nature. It plays a vital role in everyday life, from producing electricity in hydroelectric…
2021.07.28
Astronomers make first clear detection of a moon-forming disk around an exoplanet
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a diskaround a planet outside our Solar S…
2021.07.21
Tanabata Lecture Held at Santiago Japanese School
On July 7, the day of the Tanabata star festival, Associate Professor Yoshiharu Asaki gave a lecture on astronomy titled "Amanogawa (the Milky Way) and the Gal…
2021.07.20
EHT pinpoints dark heart of the nearest radio galaxy
An international team anchored by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is known for capturing the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M…
2021.07.13
Do Supernova Explosions feed a Big Eater Black Hole?
It has long been a mystery how a black hole at the center of a galaxy swallows gas from the huge rotating gas disk around it. Observations with two radio teles…
2021.07.08
New Radio Receiver Opens Wider Window to Radio Universe
Researchers have used the latest wireless technology to develop a new radio receiver for astronomy. The receiver is capable of capturing radio waves at frequen…
2021.07.01
ALMA Observes Deep into Chaotic Planetary Nursery
Planet formation is still a mystery. Astronomers have been studying protoplanetary discs for decades, trying to solve the details of planetary genesis. Thanks …
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2026 4.22
An Astronomer using ALMA Received the Young Scientists’ Award by MEXT
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An astronomer conducting research with ALMA has been honored with the 2026 Young Scientists’ Award by Japan’s Ministry …
2026 4.15
Unveiling the Mystery of Protoplanetary Disk Formation Around Young Stars
An international team led by Indrani Das of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), has unveil…
2026 4.7
ALMA Reveals Magnetically Driven Disk Wind in the Protostar
An international research team using ALMA has discovered compelling evidence that winds from a young protostar are driv…
