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…
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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….
ALMA Reveals Rotating Dense Molecular Torus Around an Active Supermassive Black Hole
High resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole. The existence of…
Observations of Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe Reveal Rare Dark-Matter Haloes
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter-diameter telescope in the Antarctic that has been operating at millimeter- and submillimeter-waves for a decade; the CfA…
ALMA Discovers Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules in Nearby Galaxy
The nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a chemically primitive place. Unlike the Milky Way, this semi-spiral collection of a…
ALMA Opens a New Window to the Distant Universe, Reveals ‘Whirlpool’ Movement
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have…
ALMA Discovers Massive Primordial Galaxies Swimming in Dark Matter
Astronomers expect that the first galaxies, those that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, would share many similarities with some…
ALMA Reveals Infant Stars Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and bathed…
ALMA Discovers Hyper-Luminous Galaxies in Extreme Starbursting Merger
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered the never-before-seen close encounter between two astoundingly bright and spectacularly massive galaxies in the early universe. These…
ALMA Observes Dust Formation and Wind Acceleration Around W Hydrae
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers from Kyoto University help explain aluminum oxide enrichment around AGB stars. Stars like our Sun eject large…
New ALMA Image Provides a Surprising Glimpse of Our Sun’s Future
For the first time, astronomers have observed details on the surface of an aging star with the same mass as the Sun. The new ALMA…
ALMA Reveals Diverse Nuclear Star-Forming Activities in NGC 253
Astronomers found a rich molecular reservoir in the heart of an active star-forming galaxy with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Among eight clouds identified…
ALMA Detects Cold Dust Around Proxima Centauri
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has discovered dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri. These new observations reveal the glow…
ALMA Views the Dust Disk Around Young Protostar HH-212
Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spatially resolve the dust disk around the young protostar known as HH-212. Stars form as gravity contracts the…
ALMA Detects Methyl Chloride (CH3Cl) in Interstellar Space
New observations from ALMA reveal the first detection ever of an organohalogen, Methyl chloride (CH3Cl), in interstellar space. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
ESOcast 128: How Astronomers Look at the Universe and Why They Need ALMA
This short ESOcast video explains why astronomers need radio telescopes like ALMA to understand phenomena in some of the dustiest and most distant regions of…