Science November 18, 2011

Ultra Bright Submillimeter Galaxy “Orochi”

Multi-wavelength images of Orochi. Orochi is located at the center of each image. The bright sources on radio, millimeter and submillimete...

Science October 27, 2011

Subaru's 3-D View of Stephan's Quintet

Composite tricolor images of Stephan's Quintet using Hα filters with a recession velocity of 0 (left image) and a recession velocity of 4,2...

Science October 20, 2011

Researchers Explain the Formation of Scheila's Unusual Triple Dust Tails

A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, primarily from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of...

Science October 19, 2011

"Failed Stars" Galore with One Youngster Only Six Times Heftier than Jupiter

An international team of astronomers has discovered over two-dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs that reside in two young star clusters. O...

Science October 19, 2011

The First Detection of Abundant Carbon in the Early Universe

The optical image of TN J0924-2201, a very distant radio galaxy at z = 5.19, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. (c) NASA/STScI/NAOJ....

Science October 19, 2011

ALMA Opens Its Eyes

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy obser...

Science September 8, 2011

Approaching the Black Hole: Astronomers Pinpointed the Location of the Central Black Hole in M87

Credit: NAOJ/AND You Inc. A research team of astronomers led by Hada (SOKENDAI/NAOJ) reported the location of the supermassive black hole i...

Science August 26, 2011

Three classical Cepheids and their impact on the star formation history in the Galactic Nuclear Bulge

Figure1. The finding charts of the classical Cepheids discovered in the Nuclear Bulge. The region within a few hundred light years of the ...

Science July 7, 2011

Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Sharpens Subaru Telescope's Eyesight and Opens a New Vision of the Distant Universe

Figure1. Laser beam shot from the Subaru Telescope to generate an artificial guide star at a height of 90 km in the upper atmosphere. (Phot...

Science May 18, 2011

First Japanese 7-m antenna was handed over to JAO

The first 7-m antenna passed the acceptance review and was handed over to the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) on May 2, 2011. The antenna is...