National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

2023

December 25, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Maunakea Coin Contest 2024 is Now Open and Accepting Entries from Students in Grades K-12
December 22, 2023 | ALMA
A Dancing Ancient Galactic Disk at a Peak of Star Formation
December 5, 2023 | Division of Science
The James Webb Space Telescope discovered numerous supermassive black holes in the distant universe
December 4, 2023 | ALMA
NAOJ Director General and NAOJ ALMA Project Director visit University of Chile
November 21, 2023 | ALMA
The ALMA Board shows its gratitude to NAOJ Director General Saku Tsuneta
November 14, 2023 | Division of Science
Did the Solar System Originate 10,000 Light-Years Away?
November 14, 2023 | ALMA
New US & Japan Partnership Will Make the World’s Most Powerful Telescope Even More Sensitive
November 7, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Subaru Telescope Mentors Four Students in the 20th Anniversary Year of the Akamai Workforce Initiative
November 2, 2023 | Center for Computational Astrophysics
Deep Learning Speeds Up Galactic Calculations -- A new way to simulate supernovae may help shed light on our cosmic origins
October 13, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
"A New Lens" into the Universe's Most Energetic Particles
October 3, 2023 | Advanced Technology Center
Sho Masui of Advanced Technology Center Receives Two Presentation Awards!
September 29, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Suspension of Night Observations (Report 2)
September 25, 2023 | ALMA
Sho Masui Receives Electronics Society Student Award for Presentation Related to ALMA Development
September 22, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Suspension of night observations
September 21, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
The Tanabata Japanese Star Festival Draws Thousands
September 20, 2023 | ALMA
The Strongest Tag Team of the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA Captures the Core of the Most Distant Galaxy Protocluster
September 19, 2023 | Division of Science
The Automated Reaction Pathway Search Reveals the Energetically Favorable Synthesis of Interstellar CH3OCH3 and HCOOCH3
September 14, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
The Perseids 2023: Three-Days Special Live Streaming from Maunakea, Hawai`i
September 13, 2023 | Office of International Relations
OIR exhibited the NAOJ booth at the 2023 Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM 2023), Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture.
August 15, 2023 | ALMA
New ALMA receivers that will probe our cosmic origins successfully tested
August 14, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Sending Message to the Maui Community
August 14, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
The Tanabata Japanese Star Festival Returns to `Imiloa
August 8, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Assistant Professor at Advanced Technology Center (ATC)
August 4, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at Gravitational Wave Science Project (GWSP)
August 4, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Maunakea Summer Special 2023: Perseid Meteor Shower! - A Special Night Sky Livestream from Subaru Telescope
August 3, 2023 | Job Vacancies
[The ALMA Joint Scientific Research Program] Project Researcher (Annual Salary System, the research project "Investigating the interstellar gas associated with gamma-ray supernova remnants: Pursuit of the production rate of cosmic rays") (Stationed at Gifu University)
Project Research Fellow
July 27, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Professor or Associate Professor at Nobeyama Radio Observatory
Project Assistant Professor (ARC Scientist, ALMA Project)
Associate Professor at Subaru Telescope
July 26, 2023 | ALMA
New image reveals secrets of planet birth
July 21, 2023 | Job Vacancies
JAO Staff (Head of the ALMA Department of Science Operations (DSO)- International Job Opportunity)
July 6, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Survey of Star Masses in Early Universe Analog
July 5, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Project Research Fellow (Project Researcher on Annual Salary System) (Subaru Telescope)
July 4, 2023 | ALMA
Baby Star Growing Fast through A 3-Layer Pancake-like Protostellar Disk
July 3, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Hawai`i Observatories Add Color, Depth to Space Mission
June 30, 2023 | Job Vacancies
NAOJ Fellow (Project Assistant Professor)
June 29, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Senior Specialist, ALMA Project (Development and maintenance of CASA (mainly for single dish data))
June 29, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Starlight and the First Black Holes: Researchers Probe the Relationship Between Black Holes and Host Galaxies
June 28, 2023 | Division of Science
Discovery of a new type of carbon-chain chemistry around massive young stellar objects – Hot Carbon-Chain Chemistry (HCCC) –
June 26, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Senior Specialist (Annual Salary System) at Public Relations Center (IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach Director)
June 23, 2023 | Center for Computational Astrophysics
Thermal Convection Energizes Solar Flares -- Revealed by Supercomputers Fugaku and ATERUI II
June 22, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Project Researcher (Annual Salary System) at ALMA Project
June 20, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Subaru Telescope Day Crew receives NAOJ Director General's Award
June 15, 2023 | Division of Science
Newly discovered molecular clouds that may be interacting with the astrophysical jets of the most active microquasar in our galaxy
June 14, 2023 | Division of Science
Electromagnetic emission from black hole mergers in a giant disk of gas
June 12, 2023 | ALMA
NINS President and NAOJ Director General Visit the ALMA Site
June 12, 2023 | Division of Science
Reveal chemical links involving NH2CHO that contains a peptide bond around high-mass protostars
June 8, 2023 | SOLAR-C
International full-team meeting held in-person
June 1, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Galactic Recycling Confirmed in Ancient Galaxy
May 30, 2023 | Job Vacancies
[The ALMA Joint Scientific Research Program] Project Researcher (Annual Salary System, the research project “ALMA HzFINEST: High-z Far-Infrared Nebular Emission Studies”) (Stationed at Waseda University)
May 26, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Two Subaru Telescope Users Awarded 2023 MEXT Commendations for Science and Technology
May 23, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Subaru Telescope Discovers 100th Moon of Saturn
May 15, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Project Research Fellow (Project Researcher on Annual Salary System) (Stellar Evolution in Early Universe) (Division of Science)
May 11, 2023 | Division of Science
First Detection of Hot Molecular Cloud Cores in the Small Magellanic Cloud
May 9, 2023 | Job Vacancies
International Outreach Officer of The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO)
April 27, 2023 | ALMA
ALMA 2 project has begun
April 27, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
SWIMS Subaru Telescope Observations Completed
April 24, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Subaru Telescope Reports Glycol Leak, No Known Threat to Environment on Maunakea
April 13, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Does Light Emerge from a Black Hole Merger?: Subaru+GTC Collaboration to Target Gravitational Wave Events
April 13, 2023 | Division of Science
Does Light Emerge from a Black Hole Merger?: Subaru+GTC Collaboration to Target Gravitational Wave Events
April 11, 2023 | 4D2U
Gas Disk around a Black Hole
April 7, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Subaru Telescope Brings Na`alehu Elementary School Students to East Hawai`i for Immersive Field Trip
April 7, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Project Research Fellow (Project Researcher on Annual Salary System) with Patricio Sanhueza at ALMA Project
April 5, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Project Research Fellow (Project Researcher on Annual Salary System) (ALMA Project) with Misato Fukagawa
April 4, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
How to See the Invisible: Using the Dark Matter Distribution to Test Our Cosmological Model
March 17, 2023 | ALMA
ALMA Traces History of Water in Planet Formation Back to the Interstellar Medium
March 14, 2023 | ALMA
ALMA and its Partners Celebrate 10 Years of Groundbreaking Science
March 9, 2023 | 4D2U
Formation of a Multiple-Star System
March 6, 2023 | Division of Science
Magnetism in High-Mass Stars
February 24, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
A Month in which the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera Captured the Attention of the World - Comments from a Researcher who Supports the Live-Streaming
February 24, 2023 | Job Vacancies
JAO Staff (Deputy Director for Operations (Grade 19))
JAO Staff (Deputy Director for Development (Grade 19))
February 21, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Subaru Telescope Joins AstroDay West
February 21, 2023 | ALMA
Ambassador of Chile to Japan visits NAOJ
February 16, 2023 | Division of Science
An empirical method for mitigating an excess up-scattering mass bias on the weak lensing mass estimates for shear-selected cluster samples
February 16, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Subaru-Asahi Star Camera Captures Faint Green Laser Lights from Earth Observation Satellite
February 13, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
12 New Jovian Moons Discovered
February 7, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Recoating the Primary Mirror in 2022
February 3, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
A Flying Spiral over Maunakea
January 31, 2023 | 4D2U
Asteroid Collisions and Shape Evolution
January 24, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Direct Imaging Uncovers a Giant Planet-Like Brown Dwarf in the Hyades Cluster
January 23, 2023 | ALMA
A 1000x Sharper View - Are Magnetically Stabilized Streamers a Fundamental Building Block in High-Mass Star Formation?
January 20, 2023 | Subaru Telescope
Discovery of the Largest-class Monster Supercluster of Galaxies in the Universe 5.5 Billion Light-Years Away
January 17, 2023 | Division of Science
Crisis in Cosmology: Statistics on the rescue.
January 12, 2023 | Job Vacancies
Senior Specialist (CASA, ALMA Project)
January 5, 2023 | Solar Science Observatory
Automated Sunspot Detection as an Alternative to Visual Observations
January 4, 2023 | ALMA
Four Telescopes for the Price of One