Forming planets are one possible explanation for the rings and gaps observed in disks of gas and dust around young stars. But this theory has…
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The photosynthetic sea slug, Plakobranchus ocellatus type black, (left) and an electron micrograph displaying sequestered algal chloroplasts within a sea slug cell (right). Credit: Taro…
Schematical representation of the expansion of the Universe over the course of its history. Credit: NAOJ An international research team analyzed a database of more…
Unprecedented high-resolution map of the Orion Nebula Cluster showing newborn stars (orange squares), gravitationally collapsing gas cores (red circles), and non-collapsing gas cores (blue crosses).…
The bent jet structures emitted from MRC 0600-399 as observed by the MeerKAT radio telescope (left) are well reproduced by the simulation conducted on ATERUI…
Conceptual image. By observing a comet in thermal infrared wavelengths, the same wavelengths used by noncontact thermometers, it is possible to determine not only its…
Image of the galaxy cluster RXCJ0600-2007 taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, combined with gravitational lensing images of the distant galaxy RXCJ0600-z6, 12.4 billion…
Gas moving toward us is shown in blue and gas moving away from us is shown in red. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Lu et al. Astronomers…
Schematic diagram of the evolution of the Universe from the inflation (left) to the present (right). The “reconstruction method” winds back the evolution from right…
Artist’s impression of the ions and electrons in various space plasmas. Credit: Yohei Kawazura New simulations carried out in part on the ATERUI II supercomputer…
The asteroid 1998 KY26 (the point of light located at where the two lines would cross) captured by Hyper Suprime-Cam mounted on the Subaru Telescope.…
The converging lines represent the paths of the comets. The ecliptic plane is shown in yellow and the empty ecliptic is shown in blue. The…
Wide-field far-infrared image of the Taurus Molecular Cloud obtained by the Herschel Space Observatory and stellar eggs observed with ALMA (insets). Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tokuda…
Conceptual illustration of how artificial intelligence classifies various types of galaxies according to their morphologies. Credit: NAOJ/HSC-SSP Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide…
HSC J1631+4426 broke the record for the lowest oxygen abundance. Credit: NAOJ/Kojima et al. Breaking the lowest oxygen abundance record. New results achieved by combining…
Figure 1. Schematic of the metal-like quantum gas. Credit: NINS/IMS Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy…
Artist’s impression of the formation of supermassive stars which evolve into a supermassive black hole. Credit: NAOJ Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University…
Hot spots circling around the black hole could produce the quasi-periodic millimeter emission detected with ALMA. Credit: Keio University Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
Artist’s impression of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system. Credit: NAOJ Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that the Earth-like planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are…
This is an artist’s impression of the newly discovered object. Credit: Ko Arimatsu For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius…