Science August 11, 2020

Classifying Galaxies with Artificial Intelligence

Astronomers have applied AI to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral galaxies in those images.

Science August 7, 2020

Stellar Egg Hunt with ALMA—Tracing Evolution from Embryo to Baby Star

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and revealed their evolution state.

Science August 1, 2020

Machine Learning Finds a Surprising Early Galaxy—Breaking the Lowest Oxygen Abundance Record

New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low oxygen abundance of 1.6% solar abundance, breaking the previous record of the lowest oxygen abundance.

Science July 10, 2020

The Lion’s Roar: New Telescope Spots Superflare in Leo

A new telescope in Okayama, Japan observed a superflare on a star in the constellation Leo to better understand how superflares on the Sun can affect technology and life on Earth.

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Science June 11, 2020

New Method to Study Barred Spiral Galaxies

Analysis of gas motion in 20 nearby spiral galaxies has revealed a clear difference between those with bars and those without bars.

Science June 2, 2020

Large Simulation Finds New Origin of Supermassive Black Holes

Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes.

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Science May 22, 2020

ALMA Spots Twinkling Heart of Milky Way

Astronomers using the ALMA found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A*.

Science May 14, 2020

TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Orbits not Misaligned: First Scientific Result by the New Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that the Earth-like planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are not significantly misaligned with the rotation of the star.

Science April 28, 2020

TAMA300 Blazes Trail for Improved Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Researchers at the NAOJ have used the infrastructure of the former TAMA300 gravitational wave detector in Mitaka, Tokyo to demonstrate a new technique to reduce quantum noise in detectors.

Science March 27, 2020

ALMA Resolves Gas Impacted by Young Jets from Supermassive Black Hole

Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).