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News

Science–2018

Science
December 18, 2018

Mystery of coronae around supermassive black holes deepens

Artist’s rendering of the corona around a black hole

Science
December 3, 2018

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

Science
November 30, 2018

Black Hole ‘Donuts’ are Actually ‘Fountains’

ALMA image of the gas around the supermassive black hole in the center of the Circinus Galaxy.

Science
November 22, 2018

ALMA’s Highest Frequency Receiver produces its First Scientific Result on Massive Star Formation

Photo of the star forming region NGC 6334I taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (top) and the high frequency radio spectra (bottom).

Science
October 12, 2018

Little Supernova is Big Discovery: the Origin of Binary Neutron Stars

SN images

Science
October 1, 2018

Cosmological Constraints from the First-Year of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

Figure:The 3-dimensional dark matter map of the Universe.

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September 4, 2018

Veiled Supernovae Provide Clue to Stellar Evolution

Artist’s impression of a red supergiant surrounded with thick circumstellar matter.

Science
September 4, 2018

Falling Stars hold Clue for Understanding Dying Stars

Cosmic clocks.

Science
August 30, 2018

Unstoppable Monster in the Early Universe - ALMA obtains most detailed view of distant starburst galaxy

Science
July 13, 2018

Subaru Telescope Helps Pinpoint Origin of Ultra-High Energy Neutrino

Image: Subaru Telescope

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June 29, 2018

New Mystery Discovered Regarding Active Asteroid Phaethon

Artist’s conception of polarized light reflected by near-Earth asteroid Phaethon.

Science
June 6, 2018

Magnetic Field Saves Pillars of Creation from Destruction

BISTRO magnetic field vectors overlaid on a Hubble Space Telescope three color image

Science
May 17, 2018

ALMA Finds Oxygen 13.28 Billion Light-Years Away - Most Distant Oxygen Indicates Mature Nature of a Young Galaxy

This image shows the galaxy cluster MACS j1149.5+223 taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the inset image is the galaxy MACS1149-JD1 located 13.28 billion light-years away observed with ALMA.

Science
March 13, 2018

Double or Nothing: Astronomers Rethink Quasar Environment

Galaxy distribution and close-ups of some protoclusters revealed by HSC.

Science
March 2, 2018

Unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map

Science
February 22, 2018

Rare first moment of stellar explosion captured by amateur astronomer

Artist's impression of a shock breakout

Science
February 20, 2018

No relation between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy!?—The co-evolution mystery deepened by a new ALMA observation

A schematic view of the fact that an ionized gas outflow (green) driven by the central supermassive black hole does not affect the star formation of its host galaxy.

Science
February 14, 2018

Rotating Dusty Gaseous Donut around an Active Supermassive Black Hole

The central region of the spiral galaxy M77. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope imaged the distribution of stars. ALMA revealed the distribution of gas in the very center of the galaxy.