Science September 11, 2017

Photosynthesis under the light conditions different from the Earth: New prediction of a detection wavelength for searching phototrophs on exoplanets

Researchers at the Astrobiology Center (ABC) of National Institutes of Natural Science (NINS) in Japan and their colleagues have proposed and alternative prediction that red-edge could be observed as on the Earth even on exoplanets around M-dwarfs.

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Science September 11, 2017

Explosive Birth of Stars Swells Galactic Cores - ALMA spots transforming disk galaxies

Astronomers found that active star formation upswells galaxies, like yeast helps bread rise.

Science August 25, 2017

Phoenicid Meteor Shower from Dead Comet Arises again after 58 Years

Japanese astronomers observed the elusive “Phoenicid meteor shower” and have determined that it was spawned by the now vanished Comet Blanpain.

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Science August 2, 2017

Running Out of Gas: Gas Loss Puts Brakes on Stellar Baby Boom

Astronomers observed a galaxy cluster 9.4 billion light-years away using the ALMA radio telescope array and found evidence that hot gas strips away the cold gas in the member galaxies.

Science June 13, 2017

ALMA Hears Birth Cry of a Massive Baby Star

An international research team led by a Japanese astronomer has determined how the enigmatic gas flow from a massive baby star is launched.

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Science May 18, 2017

First Direct Exploration of Magnetic Fields in the Upper Solar Atmosphere --Ultraviolet spectropolarimetry opens a new window for solar physics research--

For the first time in the world, scientists have explored the magnetic field in the upper solar atmosphere by observing the polarization of ultraviolet light from the Sun.

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Science April 28, 2017

First Global Simulation Yields New Insights into Ring System

A team of researchers in Japan modeled the two rings around Chariklo, the smallest body in the Solar System known to have rings.

Science April 13, 2017

Collisions generate gas in debris disks

Astronomers at RIKEN and Japanese universities observed two young stars with ASTE and discovered atomic carbon gas in the debris disks for the first time.

Science March 29, 2017

Subaru Telescope Detects the Shadow of a Gas Cloud in an Ancient Proto-supercluster

By using the Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope, a team succeeded in making the widest map of neutral hydrogen gas in the early universe.

Science March 8, 2017

Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars — Most distant object ever observed by ALMA

Astronomers have used ALMA to detect a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the Universe was only four percent of its present age.