This dramatic infrared image shows the nearby star formation region Monoceros R2, located some 2700…
Browsing: ALMA
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is one of the most advanced astronomical observatories on Earth, located high in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Comprising 66 high-precision antennas, ALMA observes the universe in millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths—ideal for studying the coldest, most distant, or dust-shrouded regions of space. From probing the formation of stars and planets to examining the chemistry of distant galaxies, ALMA provides astronomers with an unparalleled window into the early universe and the processes shaping cosmic evolution.
The discovery of an exoplanet has most often resulted from the monitoring of a star’s…
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used…
Nestled in the young Ophiuchus star-forming region, 410 light-years from the Sun, a fascinating protoplanetary…
High-resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus…
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter-diameter telescope in the Antarctic that has been…
The nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a chemically primitive…
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered…
Astronomers expect that the first galaxies, those that formed just a few hundred million years…
At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole,…
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered the never-before-seen close encounter between two astoundingly…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers from Kyoto University help explain aluminum oxide…
For the first time, astronomers have observed details on the surface of an aging star…
Astronomers found a rich molecular reservoir in the heart of an active star-forming galaxy with…
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has discovered dust around the closest star to the…
Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spatially resolve the dust disk around the young…
New observations from ALMA reveal the first detection ever of an organohalogen, Methyl chloride (CH3Cl),…
This short ESOcast video explains why astronomers need radio telescopes like ALMA to understand phenomena…