Astronomers Solve the 1936 Mystery of FU Orionis’ Dramatic Outburst
ALMA observations of FU Orionis reveal how gravitational accretion from a past gas stream causes sudden brightness in young stars, shedding light on star and…
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Reimagining Planetary Genesis: Young Disk Observations Challenge Formation Theories
Early Evolution of Planetary Disk Structures Seen for the First Time Planet formation may occur much more rapidly than previously thought. An international team of…
Unexpected Chemical Detectives: ALMA’s Surprise Discovery Aids Protoplanet Search
Using the ALMA observatory, scientists studying the protoplanetary disk around young star HD 169142 have discovered strong chemical evidence of a protoplanet, offering a new…
Space Explosions Just Got More Interesting: Challenging Conventional Understanding of Classical Novae
A researcher has discovered non-thermal emissions from the classical nova V1674 Herculis, challenging the conventional understanding of these celestial objects as simple heat-induced explosions. This…
Cracking the Magnetic Code: Distant Radio Signals Reveal Earth-Like Exoplanets’ Hidden Force
Radio emissions originating about 12 light-years outside our solar system reveal possible magnetic interactions between star YZ Ceti and its prospective close-orbiting, rocky planet. Researchers…
Astonishing Discovery Reveals Water in Our Solar System May Have Originated Billions of Years Before the Sun
ALMA Traces History of Water in Planet Formation Back to the Interstellar Medium Observations of water in the disk forming around protostar V883 Ori have…
Cosmic Feast Unveiled: Two Supermassive Black Holes Discovered Dining Together
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s…
Secrets of a Massive Star Revealed Through Astrophysical Lasers
ALMA scientists used the unique hydrogen radio recombination lines on MWC 349A to reveal hidden collimated jets. While using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
Violent Galactic Shockwave: Webb Space Telescope Reveals Sonic Boom Bigger Than the Milky Way
ALMA and Webb Reveal Galactic Shock is Shaping Stephan’s Quintet in Mysterious Ways Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s…
Astronomers Discover Important New Information Regarding Star Formation
The study reveals cosmic rays are driving galaxies’ winds An important new hint regarding how galaxies halt intense episodes of star formation has been found…
Astronomers Produce First Full 3D View of Binary Star-Planet System
Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star, which is one of a binary pair, by precisely tracing a small, almost imperceptible, wobble…
Astronomers May Have Discovered the Youngest Planet Ever Detected in Our Galaxy
ALMA Makes First-Ever Detection of Gas in a Circumplanetary Disk Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study planet formation have made the…
Astronomers Discover Evidence for Most Powerful Pulsar in Distant Galaxy
Astronomers analyzing data from the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have discovered one of the youngest known neutron stars — the superdense remnant of a massive…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Repeating Bursts of Radio Waves From Outer Space
In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB) is a transient radio pulse of length ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few…
Mysterious Death of Carbon-Rich Star Plays Out Like Six-Ring Circus
Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data…
A Galaxy Far, Far, Away: Cosmic Colossi and Their Origins
A century ago two prominent astronomers held a debate at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The topic concerned the nature of the faint spiral…
Astronomers Catch Stellar “Intruder” Redhanded – Chaotic Streams of Dust and Gas
A rare stellar flyby in the Z Canis Majoris system was observed by scientists using ALMA and VLA, providing real-world evidence of events previously confirmed…
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….