“How was our solar system formed?”
“Can we find building blocks of life anywhere other than on the Earth?”
These long asked questions of the universe still remain a mystery, but they are about to be solved by the world’s most advanced telescope ALMA, a giant telescope that was constructed at an altitude of 5,000 meters in Chile and started its scientific observations from 2011. With a visual acuity of 120,000/20, ALMA is capable of capturing overwhelmingly high quality images of very weak radio waves emitted by gas and dust from which stars and planets are formed and materials that could be building blocks of life.
ALMA has a mission to unveil the mechanism of planet formation and to find a clue to the origin of life in global partnership of 22 countries and regions including Japan. 

  To study with ALMA, you can
- Download data from the ALMA Science Archive.
- Propose your own observations.
For researchers who have no experience in radio observation or radio interferometry, NAOJ's East Asia ALMA Regional Center will provide user support.

For details, please refer the webpage below.
 https://researchers.alma-telescope.jp/e/