Science December 7, 2015

Radio Shadow Reveals Tenuous Cosmic Gas Cloud

Astronomers detected the absorption of radio waves by ALMA and have discovered the most tenuous molecular gas ever observed.

Science December 5, 2015

ALMA Spots Monstrous Baby Galaxies Cradled in Dark Matter

Astronomers discovered a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away using ALMA.

Science December 4, 2015

Event Horizon Telescope Reveals Magnetic Fields at Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Astronomers have detected magnetic fields just outside the event horizon of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

Science October 15, 2015

ALMA telescope unveils rapid formation of new stars in distant galaxies

Researchers find galaxies forming stars at extreme rates nine billion years ago were efficient than average galaxies by ALMA, PdBI, and etc.

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Science September 30, 2015

Mechanism of explosions and plasma jets associated with sunspot formation revealed

Research team reveals the astrophysical mechanism for the formation of sunspots by Hinode and NASA Ames Research Center's supercomputer.

Science September 25, 2015

“Fossils” of galaxies reveal the formation and evolution of massive galaxies

An international team observed massive dead galaxies in the universe 4 billion years after the Big Bang with the Subaru Telescope's MOIRCS.

Science September 10, 2015

Oxygen is not Definitive Evidence of Life on Habitable Extrasolar Planets

Astrobiology Center and IMS have presented a novel hypothesis that it could be possible for planets to have large quantities of abiotic oxygen.

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Science August 27, 2015

Discovering Dust-Obscured Active Galaxies as They Grow

The research group discovered 48 DOGs using data obtained from the HSC on the Subaru Telescope and has measured how common they are.

Science August 24, 2015

Hinode, IRIS, and ATERUI Cooperate on 70 year old Solar Mystery: Magnetically driven resonance helps heat the Sun’s atmosphere!

The combined data of Hinode, IRIS, and ATERUI, they were able to detect and identify the observational signatures of resonant absorption.

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Science August 5, 2015

The Ghostly Remnants of Galaxy Interactions Uncovered in a Nearby Galaxy Group

Subaru Telescope’s HSC observed a large area toward M81 with satellite galaxies and resolved the special distribution of young stars.