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Statement from the NAOJ Director General on the Situation in Ukraine

NAOJ staff member tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) (June 27, 2022)

Theft and Loss of a Laptop PC that Contains Personal Information incident in the Republic of Chile

Regarding the preventive actions for the novel coronavirus

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Recent Updates

June 27, 2022 | Job Vacancies
NAOJ Fellow (Project Assistant Professor)
June 22, 2022 | Subaru Telescope
A New Release from Hyper Suprime-Cam Legacy Archive!
June 17, 2022 | Job Vacancies
Project Research Fellow (Project Researcher on Annual Salary System) (Astronomy Data Center)
June 17, 2022 | ALMA
Close encounter more than 10,000 years ago stirred up spirals in an accretion disk
June 13, 2022 | Subaru Telescope
Suspension of night observations
June 1, 2022 | ALMA
Unknown structure in galaxy revealed by high contrast imaging
May 27, 2022 | Gravitational Wave Science Project
Study about dwarf novae by Yohei Nishino (formerly supervised by Associate Professor Sako, the university of Tokyo) was published in a press release by the University of Tokyo

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NAOJ Hosted Events

Mitaka Campus Regular Events

Regular Stargazing Parties
Twice a month, reservations required.

4D2U Dome Theater
Three times a month, reservations required. (Japanese language only)

NAOJ Big Projects

  • ALMA
  • Subaru Telescope
  • KAGRA
  • TMT-J Project Office

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Related Links

  • NINS
  • IAU/OAO
  • EACOA
  • East Asia Observatory