Infrared Dark Clouds Reveal Why Some Stars are Bigger than Others
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers surveyed the cores of some of the darkest, coldest, and densest clouds in our Galaxy to find…
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New Research Implies That Current Theories of Star Formation are Incomplete
A new study from an international team of researchers has measured the lowest dust mass of a galaxy to date, leaving the researchers to believe…
Astronomers Observe Trio of Young Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have discovered a trio of young galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of…
Spitzer and ALMA Reveal Stellar Birth
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a newly published study reveals a new look at stellar birth. It’s…
A Rare View of a Planetary Construction Site in an Intermediate State of Evolution
Using the Herschel Space Observatory and ALMA, researchers have discovered that the unusual disk around the star HD 21997 appears to contain both primordial gas…
ALMA Views the Coldest Place in the Universe: The Boomerang Nebula
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers view the coldest known object in the Universe, the Boomerang Nebula. At a cosmologically crisp one degree…
Astronomers Use ALMA to Probe Giant Black Holes
Using data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, two newly published studies probe black hole jets at very different scales: a nearby and relatively quiet black…
ALMA Observatory Receives Final Antenna
The ALMA Observatory has received the final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array project. The final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
ALMA Gets a Close-Up View of Starbirth
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have captured a close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star, discovering that its jets are…
ALMA Reveals First Ever Snow Line Seen Around a Distant Star
Using the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope, astronomers have discovered a CO snow line in an infant solar system. A snow line has…
Astronomers Observe the Birth of a Massive Star in the Milky Way
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers observed the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core, revealing in superb detail the filamentary…
Signs of Star Formation Near Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center
Using ALMA, scientists have detected signs of star formation near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers using the…
Scientists Discover an Outflow From a Young Protostar
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, scientists discovered an outflow from a young protostar, marking a dramatic step towards understanding the earliest stages of a…
Correlator Supercomputer Designed to Run ALMA Radio Telescope Array
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Correlator, a large supercomputer that was built in Chile to help radio astronomers, will be able to perform 17…
ALMA Views a Key Stage in the Birth of Giant Planets
Using the ALMA telescope, scientists have made the first direct observations of the streams of gas that flow across a gap in the disc of…
ALMA Will Allow Scientists to See the Universe Like Never Before
The largest ground-based radio telescope in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), can detect hidden gases inside galaxies that might hold the key…
Using ALMA and VLA to Unveil Astronomical Mysteries
Researchers are hoping to further unlock the mysteries of planet and star formation and study many more young stars and solar systems by using the…