Chandra Reveals Cosmic Fountain Powered by Giant Black Hole
Before electrical power became available, water fountains worked by relying on gravity to channel water from a higher elevation to a lower one. This water…
ALMA
ALMA Provides Unprecedented Views of the Birth of Planets
Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is still…
Astronomers Reveal How Stellar Binaries Form
Most stars with the mass of the sun or larger have one or more companion stars, but when and how these multiple stars form is…
ALMA Reveals the Most Luminous Known Galaxy in the Universe
The most luminous galaxy in the universe has been caught in the act of stripping away nearly half the mass from at least three of…
ALMA Views Galaxy-Scale Fountain in Full Glory
A billion light-years from Earth lies one of the universe’s most massive structures, a giant elliptical galaxy surrounded by a sprawling cluster of other galaxies…
ALMA Reveals Aftermath of White Dwarf and Brown Dwarf Collision
Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for the first time that a white dwarf star and a…
Astronomers Detect Most-Distant Galactic “Wind” of Molecules To Date
Astronomers using ALMA, with the aid of a gravitational lens, have detected the most-distant galactic “wind” of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was…
ALMA Reveals Monster Galaxy in the Early Universe
Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team…
ALMA Displays Capabilities, Reveals Cosmic Steam Jets and Molecules
A team of scientists using the highest-frequency capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered jets of warm water vapor streaming away from…
ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets Around HD 163296
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star HD 163296….
Astronomers Reveal Evidence of Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang
Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to determine that star formation in the very…
ALMA Discovery Challenges the Laws of Star Formation
An international team led by researchers at CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has challenged currently held…
ALMA Discovers 14-Galaxy Collision in the Distant Universe
Tim Miller, a doctoral candidate in astronomy, is first author of a new study in the journal Nature about the initial stirrings of a 14-galaxy…
ALMA and APEX Discover Ancient Galaxy Megamerger
The ALMA and APEX telescopes have peered deep into space — back to the time when the Universe was one tenth of its current age…
These Striking Star Images Will Brighten Your Day
This dramatic infrared image shows the nearby star formation region Monoceros R2, located some 2700 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn). The…
ALMA Reveals Rings and Gaps in Developing Planetary System Elias 24
The discovery of an exoplanet has most often resulted from the monitoring of a star’s flicker (the transiting method) or its wobble (the radial velocity…
Spectacular and Unusual ALMA Image of Web Filaments in the Orion Nebula
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments…
Saturn-Like Planet Raises Fascinating Questions About Planet Formation
Nestled in the young Ophiuchus star-forming region, 410 light-years from the Sun, a fascinating protoplanetary disc named AS 209 is slowly being carved into shape….