National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

2014

Updated information of NAOJ website and each project website.

December 25, 2014 | ALMA
Antenna dance at ALMA
December 25, 2014 | Recruitment
HSC Project Assistant Professor for Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
December 24, 2014 | Gallery
Research and Education at NAOJ
December 17, 2014 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy
The world’s most extensive simulation of the Milky Way galaxy
December 16, 2014 | Gallery
W3 Main Massive Star Forming Region
December 16, 2014 | ALMA
ALMA detects Pluto-Size Objects Kicking-up Dust around Sun-Like Star
December 15, 2014 | ALMA
Astronomers from around the world meet to share remarkable results from ALMA observations
December 11, 2014 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy
Revealing Large Amounts of Dust and Unusual Extinction Curves in the Early Universe
December 9, 2014 | Gallery
NRO (Light Painting)
December 9, 2014 | Universe of Spectroscopy
20 Exploring an Active Supermassive Black Hole Buried in Cosmic Dust Using Infrared Spectroscopic Observations
December 3, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
It's Filamentary: How Galaxies Evolve in the Cosmic Web
December 3, 2014 | Gallery
Mitaka Autumn Scenery Dyed Chaotically
November 28, 2014 | ALMA
Seeing into the Heart of Mira A and its Partner
November 25, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Graduate students observation program at Subaru Telescope
November 18, 2014 | Gallery
The Basis of Clear Skies: ALMA Antennas, Venus and the Milky Way
November 11, 2014 | Gallery
Morioka Calendar
November 10, 2014 | Recruitment
NAOJ Project Associate Professor/Project Assistant Professor positions as Support Astronomers at the East Asian ALMA Regional Center (EA-ARC) of the NAOJ Chile Observatory
November 4, 2014 | Gallery
Telescope: Going back through the Universe’s History
October 30, 2014 | Recruitment
Project Research Fellow in Gravitational Wave Astronomy National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
October 30, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Confirming a 3-D Structural View of a Quasar Outflow ~ Conclusions drawn from additional observations ~
October 30, 2014 | ALMA
Planet-forming Lifeline Discovered in a Binary Star System ― ALMA Examines Ezekiel-like "Wheel in a Wheel" of Dust and Gas
October 28, 2014 | Gallery
The Milky Way Spanning Oshu in Autumn
October 27, 2014 | ALMA
Organic Molecules in Titan's Atmosphere Reside in Intriguingly Skewed Concentrations
October 21, 2014 | Gallery
60 Years Observing the Sun
October 14, 2014 | Gallery
Analyzing the Universe at multiple wavelengths
October 9, 2014 | Gallery
Total Lunar Eclipse - October 8, 2014
October 7, 2014 | Recruitment
NAOJ Project Research Fellow (specially appointed by external grant)
October 3, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Tribute to our beloved colleague, Cana
September 30, 2014 | Recruitment
NAOJ Project Research Fellow 2015
September 30, 2014 | Gallery
VERA Ishigaki-jima Station ? the 20-m Radio Telescope and the Constellation Ophiuchus
September 30, 2014 | ALMA
ALMA Finds that Organic Molecules are Branching Out
September 25, 2014 | ALMA
ALMA Extends Its Arms
September 16, 2014 | Gallery
Total Lunar Eclipse - December 10, 2011
September 12, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Raven Soars Through First Light and Second Run
September 12, 2014 | Recruitment
NAOJ Project Associate Professor/Project Assistant Professor positions as Support Astronomers at the East Asian ALMA Regional Center (EA-ARC) of the NAOJ Chile Observatory
September 11, 2014 | ALMA
Best View Yet of Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe
September 8, 2014 | Gallery
The Japanese SAIJIKI (Book of Seasons)
September 4, 2014 | Recruitment
Assistant Outreach Coordinator of The International Astronomical Union (IAU), Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO)
September 2, 2014 | Gallery
A Ring of Dust Encircling a Star
August 27, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Raven Soars Through First Light and Second Run
August 26, 2014 | Gallery
VERA Ogasawara Station 20-m Radio Telescope and the Milky Way
August 20, 2014 | ALMA
NINS and KASI Sign Agreement on ALMA
August 19, 2014 | Gallery
Inheriting a Passion about the Universe?the Course of Nobeyama Radio Observatory
August 12, 2014 | ALMA
ALMA Confirms Comets Forge Organic Molecules in Their Dusty Atmospheres
August 11, 2014 | Gallery
Mauna Kea, Summer's Contest - The Milky Way Verses the Perseid Meteor Shower
August 6, 2014 | ALMA
ALMA Pinpoints Pluto to Help Guide NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft
August 5, 2014 | Gallery
A Mysterious Spiral around an Old Star as Depicted by ALMA
August 1, 2014 | ALMA
ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Disks
August 1, 2014 | Recruitment
NAOJ Fellow 2015
July 31, 2014 | Gallery
Mauna Kea, Summer's Contest - The Milky Way Verses the Perseid Meteor Shower
July 29, 2014 | ALMA
ASTE/ALMA Development Workshop 2014
July 22, 2014 | Gallery
The Charm of Early Summer - 188-cm Reflector Telescope Primary Mirror Realuminization Project
July 18, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Organizations Collaborate for a Tanabata Star Festival at Subaru Telescope
July 17, 2014 | Recruitment
JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT - Associate Professor for ALMA receiver development (Tokyo-based)
July 16, 2014 | ALMA
TANABATA Lecture at Santiago Japanese School
July 14, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
How to Clean a Huge 8.3 m Mirror Surface
July 14, 2014 | Recruitment
Project Research Fellow in Gravitational Wave Astronomy National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
July 9, 2014 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy
Cosmological solutions to the Lithium problem:Big-bang nucleosynthesis with photon cooling, X-particle decay and a primordial magnetic field
July 7, 2014 | Gallery
Looking up at the Tanabata stars from Hawai’i
July 4, 2014 | Gravitational Wave Project Office
Press conference on the completion of the KAGRA tunnel and a site tour.
July 3, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Umbrella Galaxy's Merger Models the Cosmic Food Chain
July 1, 2014 | Gallery
ALMA Superconducting Receiver Cartridge
June 24, 2014 | Gallery
Galactic Collision Depicted by Multi-Wavelength Observations
June 23, 2014 | ALMA
EA ARC Preparatory Meeting for Cycle 2
June 20, 2014 | Recruitment
JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT - TELESCOPE STRUCTURE MECHANICAL ENGINEER ? ID# 14279 -
June 17, 2014 | Gallery
On a Clear Day: One Night at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory
June 17, 2014 | ALMA
Final ALMA Antenna Arrives on the Chajnantor Plateau
June 11, 2014 | Recruitment
JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT - SUBARU SUPPORT ASTRONOMER - ID# 14258 -
June 6, 2014 | Gallery
A Black Shape Passing Across the Face of the Sun?The 2012 Transit of Venus
May 28, 2014 | Gallery
Observatory Dome (Treatise on the Kansei Calendar)
May 20, 2014 | Gallery
Celestial Ring
May 14, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
A Vivid Reminder of Astronaut Wakata's Visit to Hilo
May 12, 2014 | Gallery
ISS passing over the Subaru Telescope
May 12, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
A Potpourri of Subaru Telescope Activities at AstroDay
May 8, 2014 | ALMA
Outcome of the Proposal Review Process, Cycle 2
May 7, 2014 | Gallery
Dusk on the Summit of Mauna Kea, Observations Begin (Subaru Telescope)
May 2, 2014 | Recruitment
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) invites application for the following Chile-based staff of the NAOJ Chile Observatory.
April 22, 2014 | Gallery
A Telescope for Theoretical Astronomy: Supercomputer “Aterui”
April 18, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Professor Motohide Tamura Awarded 2014 Toray Science and Technology Prize
April 15, 2014 | Gallery
An Airplane Flying in front of the Sun
April 14, 2014 | ALMA
ALMA Antenna Mount Manufacturing Film Released
April 9, 2014 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy
New constraints on primordial magnetic fields from the CMB
April 8, 2014 | Gallery
Spring Sunshine is in Full Bloom
April 1, 2014 | Gallery
A New Fiscal Year has Started
March 31, 2014 | TAMA Project Office
Excavation of the KAGRA tunnel has been completed.
March 24, 2014 | Gallery
ALMA and the Milky Way from the Southern Hemisphere
March 19, 2014 | Gallery
Jupiter’s Ring
March 18, 2014 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy
The moment of core collapse in star clusters with a mass function
March 13, 2014 | Gallery
Tenmon Bun’ya No Zu: Chart of the Constellations and the Regions they Govern
March 13, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Installation of a Plaque Acknowledging Donors to the TMT-Japan Office
March 11, 2014 | ALMA
Crashing Comets Explain Surprise Gas Around Young Star―ALMA reveals an enigmatic gas clump in debris disk around Beta Pictoris
March 10, 2014 | Recruitment
NAOJ Project Research Fellow in Gravitational Wave Astronomy
March 7, 2014 | Gallery
Winter Departs from Mitaka
February 26, 2014 | Gallery
Looking up the Starry Winter Sky
February 25, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Subaru Telescope Staff Contribute to a Community-Wide Celebration of Onizuka Science Day
February 25, 2014 | Recruitment
HYPER SUPRIME-CAM RESEARCH FELLOW
February 20, 2014 | Gallery
Mizusawa Station 20m Radio Telescopes and Orion
February 20, 2014 | Recruitment
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITOR
February 14, 2014 | Gallery
Orion Watches Over
February 12, 2014 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy
A New Theoretical Method to determine the Unknown Neutrino Mass-Hierarchy -- Selected as A Highlight Topical Review of 2013 in Journal of Physics G --
February 5, 2014 | Gallery
The Winter Stars seen from a Southern Island
January 28, 2014 | Gallery
VERA Iriki Station 20m Radio Telescope and the Winter Milky Way
January 21, 2014 | Gallery
Okayama Astrophysical Observatory 188cm Reflector Telescope Instrument Exchange
January 14, 2014 | Gallery
65-cm Equatorial Refractor Telescope Commemorates Japan’s Astronomical Observations
January 14, 2014 | NAOJ NOBEYAMA
“Special Issue: Twenty Years of Nobeyama Radioheliogrph” (PASJ vol.65, No.SP1) was published in 2013 December 5.
January 14, 2014 | ALMA
Youngest protoplanetary disk discovered with ALMA
January 8, 2014 | ALMA
ALMA Spots Supernova Dust Factory
January 8, 2014 | ALMA
Panoramic View of ALMA Telescope
January 7, 2014 | Gallery
New Year's Greetings from National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
January 6, 2014 | ALMA
Completion of the ALMA Receiver Development
January 6, 2014 | Subaru Telescope
Volunteering at the Visitor Information Station: The Human Face of Astronomy
Discovery of a "Relic" Galaxy, Frozen in Time
Bringing Astronomy Home
January 6, 2014 | Recruitment
SUBARU SENIOR INSTRUMENTATION/RESEARCH SPECIALIST