ESA Image of the Week – The Heart of the Milky Way
At first glance, this image may resemble red ink filtering through water or a crackling stream of electricity, but it is actually a unique view…
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ALMA and APEX Discover Ancient Galaxy Megamerger
The ALMA and APEX telescopes have peered deep into space — back to the time when the Universe was one tenth of its current age…
APEX Explores the Onset of Pulsation-Driven Winds in Giant Stars
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used the APEX submillimeter telescope to study the velocity of the CO gas in the wind of the…
Astronomers Complete the ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way
Astronomers have completed the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to…
ArTeMiS Improves APEX Image Quality
Engineers have successfully installed an instrument called ArTeMiS on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, resulting in significantly better image quality than earlier APEX images of the…
APEX Reveals Interstellar Dust in the Cosmic Clouds of Orion
In this new image, the APEX telescope reveals interstellar dust in the cosmic clouds of the Orion constellation. This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds…
A View of Clouds of Cosmic Dust in the Region of Orion
This new image from the APEX telescope in Chile shows the region around the reflection nebula NGC 1999 in visible light, with the APEX observations…
APEX Provides Images of Dust near Orion’s Belt
New images captured by Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope show clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula Messier 78. The images were created by overlaying…
APEX Electron Gun in Second Phase of Testing
A video artist’s ultra-slow-motion impression of an APEX-style electron gun firing a continuous train of electron bunches into a superconducting linear accelerator (in reality this…
