2015

Updated information of NAOJ website and each project website.

December 28, 2015 | Astronomical Events Information: Astronomical Information for February
December 25, 2015 | ALMA: New Video Released "ALMA Receiver Development -Receiver Manufacturing-"
December 22, 2015 | Picture of the week: Subtle Halos about the Ring Nebula: Planetary Nebula M57
December 21, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Trilateral Agreement Signing Ceremony
December 17, 2015 | Astronomical Events Information: Overview and Calendar for 2016; Astronomical Information for Januray
December 15, 2015 | Job Vacancy: The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) invites applications for an Assistant Professorship of the SOLAR-C Project Office
December 15, 2015 | Picture of the week: Clearing Snow from the Face of the 45-m Radio Antenna
December 15, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Stars and the Milky Way Embrace the Telescopes on Maunakea
December 8, 2015 | Picture of the week: The Geminids Meteor Shower Falling from the Winter Night Sky
December 4, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: How a Telescope Tracks Its Target
December 1, 2015 | Picture of the week: The Geminids Meteor Shower Falling from the Winter Night Sky
November 27, 2015 | ALMA: Cool, Dim Dwarf Star is Magnetic Powerhouse
November 25, 2015 | Picture of the week: Map of Asakusa-Torigoe-Hottahara
November 25, 2015 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy: Origin of r-process elements in galactic chemodynamical evolution
November 25, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Links with Other Observatories to Create Earth-size Telescope
November 25, 2015 | Gravitational Wave Project Office: KAGRA was introduced by NHK WORLD.
November 18, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Origami and Optics – Where Art and Science Intersect
November 17, 2015 | Picture of the week: Intersection of the Solar System and the Galactic Plane
November 12, 2015 | ALMA: Mitaka Open House Day 2015
November 10, 2015 | Picture of the week: The International Space Station Transiting across the Sun
November 6, 2015 | ALMA: NAOJ-ALMA All Hands Meeting
November 5, 2015 | ALMA: Protostar Growth Spurts
November 4, 2015 | Picture of the week: Star Formation in Face-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946
October 30, 2015 | ALMA: JAO Tour for Santiago Japanese School
October 29, 2015 | Job Vacancy: The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) invites applications for a Mitaka-based Assistant Professor of the NAOJ Chile Observatory; The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) invites applications for a Chile-based Assistant Professor of the NAOJ Chile Observatory
October 29, 2015 | Division of Theoratical Astronomy: Pitch Angle of Self-Gravity Wakes in Saturn's rings
October 29, 2015 | Hinode Science Center: The photo of the CLASP launch
October 27, 2015 | Picture of the week: Somewhere over the Rainbow
October 23, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Special Program for Hawai'i Residents to Begin in Early 2016
October 20, 2015 | Picture of the week: Solar Tower Telescope Coelostat
October 13, 2015 | Picture of the week: The Emergence of the Largest Sunspots in 24 Years
October 13, 2015 | Division of Theoratical Astronomy: Probing the Stellar Explosions with Presolar Grains
October 8, 2015 | Gravitational Wave Project Office: The Nobel prize in Physics 2015
October 6, 2015 | Picture of the week: Two High Speed Jets Emitted by Protostar L1551-IRS5
September 30, 2015 | Job Vacancy: Announcement – NAOJ Project Research Fellow 2016
September 30, 2015 | ALMA: Surprising Chemistry Found in Molecular Rings around Young Star
September 29, 2015 | Picture of the week: Dusting the Subaru Telescope Primary Mirror by Sprinkling it with Dry Ice
September 28, 2015 | 4D2U: Mitaka Version 1.2.4a (English) was released.
September 24, 2015 | ALMA: Swordsmen in Atacama 2015
September 15, 2015 | Picture of the week: Three Pupils Following the Sun, the Solar Flare Telescope
September 14, 2015 | ALMA: Astronomers Discover How Lowly Dwarf Galaxy Becomes Star-Forming Powerhouse
September 8, 2015 | Picture of the week: Changes in the Venusian Clouds
September 8, 2015 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy: All sky simulations of gravitational lensing
September 8, 2015 | ALMA: Nobeyama Open Campus 2015
September 4, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Subaru Telescope and Perseids
September 1, 2015 | Picture of the week: Panorama Taken from the Center of the ALMA Antenna Array
August 26, 2015 | Job Vacancy: Graphic Designer Internship Opportunity at the IAU Office of Astronomy Outreach (OAO)
August 26, 2015 | ALMA: New projects selected for the ALMA Cycle 3 Early Science Observations
August 26, 2015 | CfCA: Origin of Saturn’s F Ring and Its Shepherd Satellites Revealed
August 25, 2015 | Picture of the week: The Quiet Photosphere and Active Chromosphere
August 18, 2015 | Picture of the week: Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Installation on the Subaru Telescope
August 17, 2015 | Job Vacancy: Announcement – NAOJ Fellow 2016
August 11, 2015 | Picture of the week: ALMA 12-Meter Antenna Paper Models
August 11, 2015 | Job Vacancy: Assistant Professor, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
August 10, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Agreement Signed by NAOJ and ASIAA
August 4, 2015 | Picture of the week: Meteoroids
July 30, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Witnesses Assembly of Galaxies in the Early Universe for the First Time
July 29, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Subaru Celebrates the Second Annual Tanabata Festival
July 28, 2015 | Picture of the week: Crimson Light Rushing out from a Galaxy
July 28, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Hiding in Plain Sight: Undergraduates Discover the Densest Galaxies Known
July 24, 2015 | Hinode Science Center: "Let's observe the sun with Hinode 2015" will be carried out from Aug.24 to Aug.29, 2015.
July 23, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: New Exoplanet-hunting Camera to Help Search for Life Outside Our Solar System
July 22, 2015 | ALMA: Artistic Apparition at ALMA Observatory hosts monumental golf ball installation
July 21, 2015 | Picture of the week: Sunflowers, Bees, and Antennas
July 14, 2015 | Picture of the week: A Lion Guarding VERA Ishigakijima Station
July 13, 2015 | ALMA: TANABATA Lecture at Santiago Japanese School
July 7, 2015 | Picture of the week: The Subaru Telescope in the Moonlight and the Rising Summer Milky Way
July 2, 2015 | Astronomical Events Information: November, 2015; December, 2015
July 1, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Detects First Traces of Carbon 'Smog' Permeating Interstellar Atmospheres of Early Galaxies
June 30, 2015 | Gallery: Protoplanetary Disk Surrounding the Young Star HD 142527
June 22, 2015 | Gallery: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
June 19, 2015 | Astronomical Events Information: September, 2015; October, 2015
June 18, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Best Observational Evidence of First Generation Stars in the Universe; Discovery of Multiple Ring-Like Gaps in a Protoplanetary Disk
June 17, 2015 | ALMA: Exhibition of ALMA MUSIC BOX at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
June 16, 2015 | Gallery: Loading Receivers into an ALMA Antenna
June 10, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: 14th Annual AstroDay Festival: A team of 23 Subaru Telescope staff shares astronomy with the local community
June 9, 2015 | Gallery: Koseirenrouzu, Diagram of an Ancient Lotus Water Clock from the “Senmyo Calendar”
June 5, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Subaru Telescope imaged an asteroid where an Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa2 is going
June 2, 2015 | Gallery: Prominence
June 2, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Booth at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015
May 29, 2015 | Astronomical Events Information: July, 2015; August, 2015
May 26, 2015 | Gallery: The Deep Impact Mission Investigates the Origin of Comets
May 26, 2015 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy: Polarization Structure of Magnetically Supported Molecular Filaments
May 22, 2015 | Job Vacancy: Assistant Professor, the Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
May 22, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: NAOJ topics
May 21, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: “Census” of Galaxies Embedded in Dust
May 20, 2015 | ALMA: Giant Spiraling Molecular Gas Arms may be the Cradles of Dense Massive Molecular Cores
May 20, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: The Universe Before Dawn
May 19, 2015 | Job Vacancy: NAOJ invites applications for an Assistant Professor of the Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ
May 19, 2015 | Gallery: “Picture of the Annular Eclipse of October 31, Meiji Era 16” (from the Celestial Curiosities Nishiki-e Collection)
May 19, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: M31 taken by HSC
May 18, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: “Observational” Results From the Virtual Observatory
May 15, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Discovery of an Extremely Young Stellar Clump in the Distant Universe
May 15, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Discovers Proto Super Star Cluster -- a Cosmic 'Dinosaur Egg' About to Hatch
May 15, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: Uncovering the Activities of Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies
May 14, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: Do massive stars also form in gas disks?
May 13, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: Mass of Dark Matter Revealed by Precise Measurements of the Galaxy
May 13, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Subaru Telescope Observers Superflare Stars with Large Starspots
May 12, 2015 | Gallery: The Open Cluster “Subaru” (the Pleiades) and Jupiter Gently Watch Over Mauna Kea
May 12, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: Blue Light Observation of a Super Earth
May 11, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: Direct Image of a Young Binary Star System and Protoplanetary Disks
May 11, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Cycle 3 call for proposals attracts record number of applications
May 8, 2015 | Astronomical Events Information: June, 2015
May 8, 2015 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy: Loading relativistic velocity distributions in particle simulations
May 1, 2015 | 4D2U: Formation and Evolution of Dark Matter Halos (II．Formation of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe) ver.2
April 30, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: Direct Image of a "Second Jupiter"
April 28, 2015 | Gallery: NAOJ Mitaka Campus, Spring 2015
April 28, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: The New Solar Observations Satellite SOLAR-C
April 27, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SepctroPolarimeter (CLASP)
April 27, 2015 | Division of Theoretical Astronomy: The initial mass function of star clusters
April 24, 2015 | 1min NAOJ TOPICS: Strange Behavior in the Polar Magnetic Fields of the Sun
April 23, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: HSC project team awarded special commendation
April 23, 2015 | ALMA: New Video Released "ALMA Receiver Development -Receiver Mechanism-"
April 21, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Astronomers Find New Details about Star Formation in Ancient Galaxy Protoclusters
April 21, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Subaru Telescope's staff provided full array of activities at Onizuka Science Day
April 21, 2015 | Gallery: HiCIAO Disk Gallery
April 14, 2015 | Gallery: Gone with the Stellar Wind
April 13, 2015 | ALMA: Complex Organic Molecules Discovered in Infant Star System: Hints that Prebiotic Chemistry Is Universal
April 8, 2015 | Job Vacancy: NAOJ invites applications for a Chile-based Associate Professor of the NAOJ Chile Observatory; NAOJ invites applications for a Chile-based Assistant Professor of the NAOJ Chile Observatory; Specially Appointed Assistant Professor in Gravitational Wave Astronomy
April 7, 2015 | Gallery: Dawn Striking the Subaru Telescope and the Shadow of Mauna Kea in the Sky
April 3, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Filter exchange system for Suprime-Cam
April 1, 2015 | Nobeyama Solor Radio Observatory: Nobeyama Solor Radio Observatory was closed
March 31, 2015 | Gallery: Aerial Photo Showing the History of the Nobeyama Solar Radio Observatory
March 24, 2015 | Gallery: Lunar Eclipse
March 18, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Opens For Public Visits
March 17, 2015 | Gallery: Making an Artificial Star with a Laser Projected by the Subaru Telescope
March 13, 2015 | ALMA: Lunch Box for ALMA Staff Working at AOS
March 12, 2015 | Subaru Telescope: Measuring Galactic giants
March 11, 2015 | Recruitment: NAOJ Job Announcement Assistant Professor, Division of Theoretical Astronomy
March 10, 2015 | Gallery: The Bundling of Comet Tails Captured by the MURIKABUSHI Telescope
March 4, 2015 | ALMA: An Old-looking Galaxy in a Young Universe
March 3, 2015 | Gallery: Planet Formation Discovered with “2000 Vision”
February 24, 2015 | Gallery: A Solar Flare of the Largest Class Erupted in a Huge Sunspot Group
February 23, 2015 | Universe of Spectroscopy: 22 Exploring Galaxies 12.8 Billion Light-years away on SDF, 23 Galaxy Clusters Depicted by X-ray Spectroscopy, 24 24The Spectra of Saturn and its Ring
February 17, 2015 | Gallery: Geminid Meteor Shower
Februaray 17, 2015 | ALMA: Summer Camp at Santiago Japanese School
February 13, 2015 | Recruitment: NAOJ Job Announcement Associate Professor, Solar-C Project Office
February 10, 2015 | Gallery: Jupiter and its Moon Ganymede seen in the Infrared
February 10, 2015 | Recruitment: NAOJ Project Assistant Professor position as a Support Astronomers at the East Asian ALMA Regional Center (EA-ARC) of the NAOJ Chile Observatory
Februaray 6, 2015 | ALMA: ALMA Gains Broadband Connection with Global Science Community
February 3, 2015 | Gallery: “Tayama Calendar” ( “The final Volume of the Eastern Travel Log” Collection)
January 30, 2015 | Universe of Spectroscopy: 21 Exploring the Early Cosmos through the largest Explosions in the Universe
January 28, 2015 | Gallery: An ALMA 7 Meter Antenna being Transported to 5000 Meter Altitude
January 20, 2015 | Gallery: Detailing the Rotation of Celestial Objects
January 19, 2015 | ALMA: Comet Lovejoy Photographed at ALMA OSF
January 16, 2015 | Recruitment: NAOJ Chile Observatory Research Fellow (ASTE Support Scientist)
January 16, 2015 | Recruitment: SUBARU HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER
January 13, 2014 | Gallery: Subaru Telescope Capability Confirmation Image
January 6, 2015 | Gallery: New Year’s Greetings from NAOJ