25 September 2020
Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation
... of important clues. The team, led by Kei Tanaka at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, found that molecules such as methyl cyanide (CH3CN), which astronomers commonly observed in previous studies of massive young stars, were detected...
30 August 2018
Unstoppable monster galaxy puzzles and enlightens astronomers
... find off-centere clouds,” explains Ken-ichi Tadaki, a postdoctoral researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the lead author of the research paper published in the journal Nature...
16 May 2018
Astronomers find stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
... this out, the team whose lead author is Takuya Hashimoto, a researcher at both Osaka Sangyo University and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, reconstructed the earlier history of MACS1149-JD1 using infrared data taken with the Hubble Space...
07 December 2015
Massive baby galaxies nestled in dark matter filaments found by ALMA
... previous observations made in visible light of the same galaxies by the Subaru Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Observations confirmed that the young monstrous galaxies seemed to be located right at the...
14 March 2018
Researchers rethink quasar connection after new find
... dim and distant protoclusters from 12 billion years ago. Now however, a team including astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have conducting an unprecedented wide-field systematic survey of protoclusters using the...
