2021.03.24
Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed today a new view of the massive object at the …
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2021.03.24
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed today a new view of the massive object at the …
2021.03.18
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers have directly measured winds in Jupiter’s middle atmosphere for the first …
2021.03.16
While the impact of COVID-19 continues to affect our lives worldwide, ALMA staff have been moving forward on the long road toward recovering the Arrays and res…
2021.02.24
Stars are known to form in so-called “molecular clouds”; collections of cold gas and dust in the space between stars. These stellar nurseries can contain a num…
2021.02.09
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has spatially resolved a magnet…
2021.01.28
The ALMA / 45m / ASTE Users Meeting was held online from January 5 to 7, 2021. A total of 138 users and staff members of ALMA, Nobeyama 45-m telescope, and AST…
2021.01.26
While the COVID-19 pandemic persists all around the world, ALMA staff at the JAO and in the regions continue to work towards bringing the array back online, wi…
2021.01.15
An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar yet found — a cosmic monster more than 13 billion light-years from Earth powered by…
2021.01.12
Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Usin…
2020.12.25
On December 14, 2020, we had another opportunity to observe a total solar eclipse in Chile, following 2019. Leveraging the momentum of this big astronomical ev…
2020.12.21
On December 6, 2020, an online exchange event titled “Learning the Latest Astronomy with ALMA” was held by Mitaka City, Tokyo.
2020.11.25
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) signed a comprehensive collaboration agreement in a si…
2020.11.23
The pandemic situation in Chile is remaining stable and over the past few weeks ALMA staff have been moving forward with ALMA’s plan to recover the telescope a…
2020.11.18
A newly and better processed version of data on planet Venus, collected with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, has now been mad…
2020.11.13
NAOJ held its Mitaka Open House Day 2020 as a virtual open house on Saturday, October 24, 2020. A live streaming video was broadcast from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.…
2020.10.27
Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This was shown by an international team of astronomers who studi…
2020.10.22
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere …
2020.10.01
With the improving pandemic situation in Chile, ALMA is now scheduled to begin the long process of recovering the telescope array in the Atacama, starting with…
2020.10.01
Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a set of stellar winds around aging stars and present an explanation for th…
2020.09.25
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby stars growing in salty cosmic soup. Each star is shro…
This article is a revised version. Please check the original press release by the European South Observatory here. This…
In the November 2024 issue of Forbes JAPAN, Professor Misato Fukagawa, who serves as the East Asia Operations Manager o…
This article is based on the press release issued by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on September 4, 2024. Ple…