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July 24, 2019

Production Sites of Stars are Rare

Distribution of gas clouds obtained from the FUGIN project

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July 8, 2019

Massive Stars Grow Same Way as Light Stars, Just Bigger

Figure: ALMA image of the massive protostar G353.273+0.641.

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June 26, 2019

ALMA Pinpoints the Formation Site of Planet around Nearest Young Star

Figure: ALMA image of the protoplanetary disk around the young star TW Hydrae.

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June 18, 2019

ALMA Finds Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies

Figure: Artist’s impression of the merging galaxies B14-65666 located 13 billion light years-away.

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May 30, 2019

Subaru Telescope Captures 1800 Exploding Stars

figure: Some supernovae discovered in this study.

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May 16, 2019

ALMA Discovers Aluminum around Young Star

Figure: ALMA image of the distributions of AlO molecules (color) and warm dust particles (contours).

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April 30, 2019

Star with Strange Chemistry is from Out of Town

The Subaru Telescope High Dispersion Spectrograph.

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April 10, 2019

Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole — Japanese researchers contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of distant galaxy Messier 87

The first image of the shadow of the black hole in the center of M87 taken with EHT.

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April 3, 2019

Simulations Find Mechanism of Brightest Flashes in Universe

Figure: Artist’s impression of a high-speed jet.

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April 2, 2019

WIMPs Beat MACHOs for Control of the Universe

The only gravitational lensing event observed in this survey.

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March 28, 2019

Congratulations it’s Twins! Binary Stars Born Together

Fifure: ALMA’s view of the IRAS 07299-1651 star-forming cloud and the massive binary system at its center.

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March 20, 2019

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Star Formation and the Rich Dust from Ancient Stars

ALMA and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the distant galaxy MACS0416_Y1.

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March 14, 2019

ALMA Observes the Formation Sites of Solar-System-like Planets

ALMA image of the dusty disk around the young star DM Tau. You can see two concentric rings where planets may be forming.

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March 14, 2019

Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe

Subaru Telescope image of distant quasar. It shows a lonely quasar in the early Universe, 13.05 billion light-years away from Earth. The other objects in the field are mostly foreground stars and galaxies.

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March 12, 2019

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Enables Investigation of the Origin of Heavy Elements

Artist’s impression of a kilonova caused by a neutron star merger.

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February 28, 2019

Hiding Black Hole Found

Artist’s impression of a gas cloud swirling around a black hole.

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February 26, 2019

Two-Gun Baby Star Solves Stellar Mystery

Figure: Artist’s impression of the baby star MMS 5/OMC-3.

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February 5, 2019

Production Sites of Stars are Rare

Massive Stars Grow Same Way as Light Stars, Just Bigger

ALMA Pinpoints the Formation Site of Planet around Nearest Young Star

ALMA Finds Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies

Subaru Telescope Captures 1800 Exploding Stars

ALMA Discovers Aluminum around Young Star

Star with Strange Chemistry is from Out of Town

Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole — Japanese researchers contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of distant galaxy Messier 87

Simulations Find Mechanism of Brightest Flashes in Universe

WIMPs Beat MACHOs for Control of the Universe

Congratulations it’s Twins! Binary Stars Born Together

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Star Formation and the Rich Dust from Ancient Stars

ALMA Observes the Formation Sites of Solar-System-like Planets

Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Enables Investigation of the Origin of Heavy Elements

Hiding Black Hole Found

Two-Gun Baby Star Solves Stellar Mystery

Retreating Snow Line Reveals Organic Molecules around Young Star