Science July 20, 2012

‘Seeds’ of Massive Black Holes Found at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

Overview A research team at Keio University, led by Associate Professor Tomoharu Oka, has discovered intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) can...

Science June 25, 2012

Multiple Mergers Generate Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy

A team of astronomers has concluded that the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Arp 220 developed from a multiple merger among four or mo...

Science June 21, 2012

ALMA Reveals Constituent of a Galaxy at 12.4 Billion Light-Years Away

An international research team, led by Associate Professor Tohru Nagao from Kyoto University, and including researchers from Japan and Europ...

Science June 14, 2012

How the Universe Escaped its “Dark Ages”

An international team of astronomers has uncovered an important clue about how the Universe emerged from its “dark ages” some 13 billion yea...

Topics June 8, 2012

Transit of Venus Images Taken by NAOJ

Okayama Astrophysical Observatory 65 cm Coudé Solar Telescope Flash Report : All process of Transit of Venus taken by Okayama Astroph...

Science June 5, 2012

Nobeyama Radioheliograph Reveals Global Activity of the Sun

Outline A research team consisting mainly of researchers from NASA and the Nobeyama Solar Radio Observatory have tracked the global activity...

Science June 4, 2012

Discovery of the Most Distant Galaxy in the Cosmic Dawn

A team of astronomers has used the Subaru and Keck Telescopes to discover the most distant galaxy ever found, SXDF-NB1006-2, at a distance o...

Topics May 29, 2012

Halfway There: 33 ALMA Antennas on Chajnantor

On the 5,000 meters altitude Chajnantor plateau in northern Chile, construction of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), ...

Topics May 23, 2012

Images of Annular Solar Eclipse Taken by NAOJ

Digest Movie of Annular Solar Eclipse 4 minutes digest movie of the eclipse process. (Japanese caption) State of the sky change around all-s...

Topics May 18, 2012

Astronomers Pray to the Stars for Recovery: Asteroids Named after Disaster-Stricken Prefectures and Other Areas

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced its newly approved asteroid names via the Minor Planet Circular (MPC) issued recently. ...