Astronomers Catch Stellar “Intruder” Redhanded – Chaotic Streams of Dust and Gas
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) made a rare detection of a likely stellar…
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What’s Killing Galaxies? Solving a Long-Standing Mystery in Astrophysics
A Cosmic Whodunit: ALMA Study Confirms What’s Robbing Galaxies of Their Star-Forming Gas VERTICO Survey unmasks violent environments as culprit in mass galaxy quenching mystery….
10-Year Astronomy Plan Calls For Massive New Observatory To Study Exoplanets and Black Holes
NRAO project ranked as important new initiative. The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published its report…
Water – A Requirement for Life As We Know It – Detected in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
New study marks most distant detection of required element for life as we know it in a regular star-forming galaxy. Water has been detected in…
Scientists Uncover the Mystery of Early Massive Galaxies That Strangely Ran Out of Fuel
New study reveals that early galaxies have no fuel, and something is stopping them from refilling the tank. Early massive galaxies—those that formed in the…
Invisible Colors: Why Astronomers Use Different Radio Bands To Observe the Universe
Radio light comes in a rainbow of colors. We see these colors with radio bands, and each band has a story to tell about the…
Magnetic Structures Observed Near Supermassive Black Hole
A new view of the region closest to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) has shown important details…
Moon’s Tycho Crater Revealed in Intricate Detail – Powerful New Radar Technology Will Reveal Secrets of the Solar System
The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory (GBO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) have released a new high-resolution…
Extensive Chemical Composition Mapping Reveals Carbon-Rich, Organic Birth Environments of Planets
Scientists connect the dots between where planets form and what they’re made of. An international collaboration of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Congratulates Winners of Breakthrough Prize Awards
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) congratulates the four astronomers honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation which awarded them the 2022 New Horizons in Physics…
Stellar Collision Triggers Supernova Explosion – “This Is the First Time We’ve Actually Seen Such an Event”
Astronomers have found dramatic evidence that a black hole or neutron star spiraled its way into the core of a companion star and caused that…
Gas Re-Accretion Observed in Dying Galaxies for the First Time
ALMA data proves that ram pressure stripping doesn’t spell an immediate end for galaxies. A new study from scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
Surprising Insights Into Star Formation From Unprecedented Survey of the “Nurseries” Where Stars Are Born
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…
Mind the Gap: Direct Link Uncovered Between Protoplanetary Disk Structures and Giant Exoplanets
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…
Young Chaotic Star System Reveals Secrets of Planet Formation
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…
Astronomers Discover Jets from Massive Protostars Might be Very Different from Lower-Mass Systems
VLA reveals new details of protostellar jet. Astronomers studying the fast-moving jet of material ejected by a still-forming, massive young star found a major difference…
Map of the Nearby Universe Created by Cosmic Cartographers Reveals the Diversity of Star-Forming Galaxies
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…
Cosmic Lens Reveals Faint Radio Galaxy More Than 8 Billion Light-Years From Earth
Radio telescopes are the world’s most sensitive radio receivers, capable of finding extremely faint wisps of radio emission coming from objects at the farthest reaches…