Science March 10, 2016

Mysterious Infrared Light from Space Resolved Perfectly

A research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has detected the faintest millimeter-wave source ever observe...

Science March 10, 2016

Deciphering Compact Galaxies in the Young Universe

A group of researchers using the Suprime-Cam instrument on the Subaru Telescope has discovered about 80 young galaxies that existed in the ...

Science March 3, 2016

ALMA Spots Baby Star’s Growing Blanket

Researchers have made the first direct observations delineating the gas disk around a baby star from the infalling gas envelope by ALMA.

Science February 25, 2016

Subaru-HiCIAO Spots Young Stars Surreptitiously Gluttonizing Their Birth Clouds

International team has used the HiCIAO camera on the Subaru Telescope to reveal dramatic moments in star and planet formation.

Science February 25, 2016

New Fast Radio Burst Discovery Finds ‘Missing Matter’ in the Universe

International team identified the distant location of a fast radio burst (FRB) for the first time with using radio and optical telescopes.

Science February 4, 2016

A Violent Wind Blown from the Heart of a Galaxy Tells the Tale of a Merger

The team has succeeded in revealing the detail structure of ionized gas outflow streaming from the starburst galaxy by Subaru Telescope.

Science January 15, 2016

Signs of Second Largest Black Hole in the Milky Way - Possible Missing Link in Black Hole Evolution

Astronomers have detected signs of black hole with large mass around the center of the Milky Way by Nobeyama 45-m Radio Telescope.

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.