Science February 5, 2019

Retreating Snow Line Reveals Organic Molecules around Young Star

Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori.

Science January 29, 2019

Missing-Link in Planet Evolution Found

For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius body at the edge of the Solar System. Kilometer sized bodies like the one discovered have been predicted to exist for more than 70 years.

Topics January 15, 2019

Connecting the Dots: FOXSI-3 Data Points add up to Unprecedented Image of Solar Corona

Scientists have begun analyzing data about the solar corona captured by the FOXSI-3 sounding rocket experiment.

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Topics January 8, 2019

Construction of TMT and Beyond: A new-year’s message from the Director General, NAOJ

A new-year’s message from the Director General of NAOJ, Dr. Saku Tsuneta

Science January 1, 2019

Early Protostar Already has a Warped Disk

Using observations from the ALMA radio observatory in Chile, researchers have observed, for the first time, a warped disk around an infant protostar that formed just several tens of thousands of years ago.

Topics December 19, 2018

NAOJ ATC Researcher Recognized by IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Japan Chapter

Takafumi Kojima, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Advanced Technology Center (NAOJ ATC) won the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Japan Young Engineer Award at the Microwave Workshops & Exhibition (MWE2018).

Science December 18, 2018

Mystery of coronae around supermassive black holes deepens

Researchers have used observations from the ALMA radio observatory located in northern Chile and managed by an international consortium including the NAOJ to measure, for the first time, the strength of magnetic fields near two supermassive black holes at the centers of an important type of active galaxies.

Topics December 17, 2018

MuSCAT2 to find Earth-like Planets in the TESS Era

A Japan-Spain team has developed a powerful 4-color simultaneous camera named MuSCAT2 for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez at the Teide Observatory, Canaries, Spain.

Science December 3, 2018

Combination of Space-based and Ground-based Telescopes Reveals more than 100 Exoplanets

An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground and space based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets in only three months.

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Science November 30, 2018

Black Hole ‘Donuts’ are Actually ‘Fountains’

Based on computer simulations and new observations from ALMA, researchers have found that the rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not simple donut shapes.