Science April 12, 2010

Conclusion of Agreement for the Launch of Nano-JASMINE

Nano-JASMINE is an astrometry satellite mission using a very small satellite with the weight of 35kg. The aperture size of a primary mirror...

Science April 6, 2010

Detection of Extended High Circular Polarization in the Orion Nebula

The origin of biomolecular homochirality is a longstanding mystery. This is the phenomenon that terrestrial living material consists almost...

Science March 9, 2010

"Hinode" discovered strong magnetic field patches in the Sun's polar region

TA Japan-US-Euro international research team including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan observed the solar polar region with ...

Science March 3, 2010

ALMA Band 10 development team won the Super Conductor Science and Technology Award

ALMA Band 10 development team members received the Super Conductor Science and Technology Award from the Society of Non-Traditional Technol...

Science January 5, 2010

Closing the loop for ALMA

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has passed a key milestone crucial for the high-quality images that will be the tra...

Science December 12, 2009

First Direct Imaging of a Young Binary System

A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universi...

Science December 4, 2009

Discovery of an Exoplanet Candidate Orbiting a Sun-Like Star

The first observations with the world's newest planet-hunter instrument on the Subaru Telescope, HiCIAO (High Contrast Instrument for the S...

Science November 19, 2009

Infrared Image of Circumstellar Disk Illuminates Massive Star Formation Process

A team of astronomers from Ibaraki University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa University, University of Tokyo, Academica Sini...

Science November 17, 2009

Maps Unveil the Source of Starburst Galaxy's Winds

A research group at Kyoto University has discovered that shocks are the primary energy sources that excite the galactic wind region of star...

Science November 12, 2009

Discovery of a Retrograde or Highly Tilted Extrasolar Planet

Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit. On UT May...