Science October 19, 2011

The First Detection of Abundant Carbon in the Early Universe

The optical image of TN J0924-2201, a very distant radio galaxy at z = 5.19, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. (c) NASA/STScI/NAOJ....

Science October 19, 2011

ALMA Opens Its Eyes

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy obser...

Science September 8, 2011

Approaching the Black Hole: Astronomers Pinpointed the Location of the Central Black Hole in M87

Credit: NAOJ/AND You Inc. A research team of astronomers led by Hada (SOKENDAI/NAOJ) reported the location of the supermassive black hole i...

Science August 26, 2011

Three classical Cepheids and their impact on the star formation history in the Galactic Nuclear Bulge

Figure1. The finding charts of the classical Cepheids discovered in the Nuclear Bulge. The region within a few hundred light years of the ...

Science July 7, 2011

Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Sharpens Subaru Telescope's Eyesight and Opens a New Vision of the Distant Universe

Figure1. Laser beam shot from the Subaru Telescope to generate an artificial guide star at a height of 90 km in the upper atmosphere. (Phot...

Topics July 7, 2011

Opening ceremony of the new NAOJ Chile Office

On June 30, 2011, the opening ceremony of the new NAOJ Chile Office was held in Santiago, Chile. Link ALMA -->...

Science May 18, 2011

First Japanese 7-m antenna was handed over to JAO

The first 7-m antenna passed the acceptance review and was handed over to the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) on May 2, 2011. The antenna is...

Science April 1, 2011

ALMA Invites Proposals for Early Science Observations

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most ambitious radio astronomy observatory ever built, is announcing the fir...

Science March 25, 2011

AKARI reveals Red Giants' dusty veils

Fig.1: A false-color far-IR image of U Hydrae at 90 micron taken with AKARI's Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS), showing a shell of cold Fig.2: A...

Science March 8, 2011

New Images of Starburst Galaxy M 82 Reveal Multiple Sources of Its Superwind

Subaru high resolution image of the interior of M 82. The Subaru Telescope, fitted with its instrument COMICS (Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera a...