ESO Image of the Week – Planets in the Making
This newly released ESO image shows a disc of rotating, leftover material surrounding the young star HD 163296. Our Solar System formed out of a…
ALMA
Band 5 Receivers Improve ALMA’s Ability to Search for Water in the Universe
With the newly installed Band 5 receivers, ALMA has now opened its eyes to a whole new section of this radio spectrum, creating exciting new…
Astronomers Reveal Potential Localized Dust Enrichment from Massive Star Clusters
New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array are helping to confirm a long-standing theory that stars are copious producers of heavy elements. Galaxies are…
ESO Image of the Week – Spirals with a Tale to Tell
This newly released image shows a protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. This beautiful image, captured with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
ALMA Reveals the First Hot Core Found Outside the Milky Way
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers reveal the first hot core to be found outside the Milky Way. A hot and…
Astronomers Explore the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, international teams of astronomers explore the distant corner of the Universe first revealed in the iconic images of the…
Chandra Reveals Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster
Using Chandra and several other telescopes, astronomers have found the most distant galaxy cluster to date. This cluster, called CL J1001+0220, lies about 11.1 billion…
ALMA Images the Planetesimal Belt around HR8799
Using the ALMA submillimeter array, astronomers image the disk around HR8799 with a spatial scale as small as only thirty-two au, enough to probe the…
ALMA Detects Water Snowline Around Young Star V883 Orionis
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers has made the first ever resolved observation of a water snow line within a…
Astronomers Reveal a Planet Forming in an Earth-Like Orbit Around Young Star TW Hydrae
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers reveal a planet-forming disk in unprecedented detail, revealing a series of concentric dusty bright rings and…
ALMA Reveals New Evidence of Young Planets
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have found telltale differences between the gaps in the gas and the dust in discs around four young…
ALMA Telescope Reveals Planetary Influences on Young Stellar Disks
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that the gas cavity in transition disks in four young stars was as much as three…
Tiny Red Dwarf Star Has a Magnetic Field Several Hundred Times Stronger Than Our Sun
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers reveal that red dwarf star TVLM 513-46546 has an amazingly powerful magnetic field. Our Sun is a relatively…
ALMA Views the Formation of Galaxies in the Early Universe for the First Time
New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array reveal the most distant clouds of star-forming gas yet found in normal galaxies in the early Universe….
ALMA Reveals Star Formation in the Distant Universe
ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign has revealed the sharpest image to date of star formation in the distant universe. ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign has produced a…
ALMA and VLT Reveal Dusty and Evolved Galaxy
New observations from the Very Large Telescope along with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have revealed a dusty galaxy seen when the Universe was just…
ALMA Reveals Gas Spirals as a Nursery of Twin Stars
Astronomers used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to identify spiral arms of molecular gas and dust around binary protostars, revealing for the first…
Revolutionary ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis
This new five minute video from the European Southern Observatory reveals the fine detail that has never been seen before in a planet-forming disc. ESOcast…
