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...

Science October 25, 2010

Hybrid Black Hole Jet: A Novel Jet Model Revealed by Supercomputer Simulations

Structure of a hybrid jets. The novel jet revealed by supercomputer simulations. Jets whose speed is nearly light velocity is accelerated b...

Science September 29, 2010

Discovery of a large number of 'Monster Galaxies' in the early universe

Image of the early universe obtained by the ASTE telescope. Each bright point shows 'monster galaxy' which produces 1000 solar mass per yea...

Science September 7, 2010

Triggered Cluster Formation by the Dynamical Interactions of the Dense Molecular Gas : an Observational Study Using the 45m Telescope

This figure indicates the maps of the four objects, which are triggered by the dynamical interaction of the dense gas components.The young ...

Science August 16, 2010

Japanese Receivers for ALMA Obtained the First Spectrum

Two different types of the receivers Japan developed for ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) successfully obtained the firs...