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…
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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…
An artist’s impression of a satellite forming around a giant gas planet which is itself still forming around a star. Credit: Nagoya University Numerical simulations…
Optical image of Titan taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets…
These are images capturing the 2017 fireball from different angles and a map showing where the cameras were located. Credit: NAOJ/Kasuga et al. At around…
Various heavy metals with unique wavelength signatures are produced in an explosion following a merger of binary neutron stars. These metals are then incorporated into…
The red galaxy at the center is a dying galaxy at 12 billion years ago. Astronomers measured the motion of stars in the galaxy and…
Artist’s impression of a young galaxy surrounded by a huge gaseous cloud. Credit: NAOJ ALMA Spots Earliest Environment Pollution in the Universe Researchers have discovered…
The blue shading shows the calculated extent of the protocluster, and the bluer color indicates higher density of galaxies in the protocluster. The red objects…