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Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a…
Study of nearby galaxies gives new insights into star formation. Astronomers have taken a big step forward in understanding the dark and violent places where…
New survey reveals that the presence of gaps in planet-forming disks is more common to higher mass stars and to the development of large, gaseous…
New observations of young stellar object Elias 2-27 confirm gravitational instabilities and planet-forming disk mass as key to formation of giant planets. A team of…
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole 13.1 billion years ago. This is…
Study reveals that the makeup and life cycle of star-forming clouds is dependent on location. A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
A Dutch-led team of astronomers has discovered that high-mass stars are formed differently from their smaller siblings. Whereas small stars are often surrounded by an…
How Are Solar Systems Born? Many of us remember those school-room models of our Solar System, with tiny wooden planets rotating at the ends of…
Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found a galaxy with a spiral morphology only 1.4 billion years after the Big…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a time when the…
Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Previous…
Jovian jet streams above the cloud tops measured using the aftermath of comet collision. Working with a team led by French astronomers, Southwest Research Institute…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, a team of astronomers have directly measured winds…
To come into being, galaxies need a steady diet of cold gases to undergo gravitational collapse. The larger the galaxy, the more cold gas it…
An international team of scientists has discovered planet formation in a star system younger than 500,000 years old. The find, published in Nature, is a…
Scientists from Cardiff University peer 12 billion years into the past to reveal distant galaxy with an unexpected appearance. Scientists have challenged our current understanding…
Detailed observations of molecular gas in a tidal dwarf galaxy have important implications for our understanding of how stars are formed. A lot is known…
Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away…