Astronomers have identified a vast population of potential protoplanetary disks within the turbulent central molecular zone ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

ALMA Observatory One hundred million years or so after the Big Bang, the first stars ignited. Their appearance started the transition between two periods in the early universe: an era that ...

The NAOJ is involved in operating the ALMA Observatory in Chile, which plays a central role in the project. It had been considered impossible to capture an image of a black hole because its strong ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

Recently, a team of astronomers led by Namitha Issac of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China investigated archival ALMA data regarding G34.26+0.15, in order to shed more light on its ...

DAY 5: THE ALMA OBSERVATORY, MOON AND DEATH VALLEYS, AND DESERT STARGAZING After breakfast, you will journey through the desert to the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), an ...