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2025.03.31
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development Category for fiscal year 2024.
2024.12.26
The preliminary design review for the new Data Transmission System (DTS) for the ALMA Telescope has been completed successfully, allowing the development proje…
2023.11.15
ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) has achieved its highest resolution since it began operation. An international team for extension of optimi…
2023.09.25
Sho Masui, a project researcher fellow at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), received the Electronics Society Student Award at the 2023 Society Conference o…
2023.08.14
An international team of astronomers and engineers at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first measurements using new receiv…
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…
2023.03.13
In 2018, ALMA published the strategic vision for development towards enhancing the telescope capabilities in the 2030s as the ALMA Development Roadmap. The mai…
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…
2022.03.23
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…
2022.02.10
In 2021, ALMA celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Early Science operations. During this time, the telescope has produced many achievements on a variety of s…
2021.09.08
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…
2021.07.08
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…
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…
2020.06.25
This is the second article in the How ALMA Works series that reveals the secret of ALMA’s extraordinary capabilities. This article features the “radio interfer…
2020.05.29
In the ALMA telescope, multiple parabolic antennas are employed to make a single giant telescope. ALMA is quite different in many ways from typical telescopes …
2020.04.30
The contract has been signed for the production of the final set of receivers to be installed on the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA …
2020.02.19
The ALMA Band 1 receiver Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR) was held on November 12-13, 2019. As part of the East-Asian ALMA Development program, the Band 1 …
2020.01.28
The East ALMA Development program has held an important milestone in the last month of 2019, in collaboration with our East Asian ALMA partners. The Critical D…
2019.12.19
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) signed a comprehensive col…
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…
Dr. Akimasa Kataoka at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the M…
Takafumi Tsukui at the Australian National University (currently Tohoku University) received Inoue Research Award for Y…
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
