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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…
2018.12.19
Takafumi Kojima, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Advanced Technology Center (NAOJ ATC) engaged in the development of a new recei…
2018.11.22
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has opened another new window to the Universe. Using its highest frequency receivers yet, researchers o…
2018.03.16
NAOJ Chile Observatory produced a short video introducing the development of the ACA Correlator “Mission to Process Huge Amounts of Data in Real Time Developme…
2018.03.05
ALMA produces huge amounts of observation data from gigantic hardware systems. Remarkable ALMA results achieved by astronomers are always supported by ALMA com…
2018.01.19
In November 2017, the ALMA Board approved the development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array designed and developed by Japan for the ALMA telescope. Th…
2017.11.27
In September 2017, Alvaro Gonzalez, an assistant professor at the NAOJ Chile Observatory, won the Young Scientist Award at the IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of t…
2017.10.02
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) selected as IEICE Milestone the high-sensitivity radio telescope and the supercom…
Astronomers revealed fast gas outflows from a baby star strongly colliding with nearby dense gas where a group of baby …
The high resolution of the ALMA telescope has revealed that magnetic fields where massive stars are born play an import…
January 11, 2023 | Science
Astronomers have found a way to directly measure the amount of gas in protop…
