Science April 1, 2011

ALMA Invites Proposals for Early Science Observations

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most ambitious radio astronomy observatory ever built, is announcing the fir...

Science March 25, 2011

AKARI reveals Red Giants' dusty veils

Fig.1: A false-color far-IR image of U Hydrae at 90 micron taken with AKARI's Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS), showing a shell of cold Fig.2: A...

Science March 8, 2011

New Images of Starburst Galaxy M 82 Reveal Multiple Sources of Its Superwind

Subaru high resolution image of the interior of M 82. The Subaru Telescope, fitted with its instrument COMICS (Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera a...

Science February 25, 2011

Triggered Star Formation in the Orion Molecular Cloud

(Left) Infrared image of Orion molecular cloud. (c)2MASS (Right) Radio image of Orion molecular cloud. (c) NAOJ An international team le...

Science February 18, 2011

Direct Images of Disks Unravel Mystery of Planet Formation

The fruits of the SEEDS (Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru) Project, led by Motohide Tamura at NAOJ (National Astr...

Science December 9, 2010

Inclined Orbits Prevail in Exoplanetary Systems

A research team led by astronomers from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has discovered that incl...

Science December 1, 2010

A very close Binary Black Hole and its Merger

The joint research team of NAOJ and other research institutes succeeded in observing a very close binary black hole just before its merger. ...

Science November 25, 2010

Nobeyama Astronomers Find a Proto-quasar - a Young Super-massive Black Hole - in a Dark Monster Galaxy

An international team led by astronomers at the NAOJ Nobeyama has discovered a candidate for a proto-quasar 11.5 billion light-years away fr...

Science November 19, 2010

Why Do the Ionized Gas Clouds Stream Out from Galaxies?

Using the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) in their observations of the Coma Cluster, researchers from the National Astronomical Obs...

Science November 15, 2010

Development of the reference light source with the world highest quality - successful generation of optical signals with high stability, accuracy, and speed -

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and the National Astronomy Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have succ...