Astronomers Detect Magnetic Field in Distant Galaxy
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years…
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years…
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a team of astronomers has made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers view the Boomerang Nebula – a pre-planetary nebula produced by a dying star. This Picture of Week…
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal details about the recently discovered the planetary body 2014 UZ224. They used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to…
Using the Very Long Baseline Array a team of astronomers has discovered the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving…
A team of astronomers has seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system for the first time. Observations…
Newly published research from the CHANG-ES consortium reveals that “halos” of cosmic rays and magnetic fields above and below the galaxies’ disks are much more…
Using the Very Large Array, an international team of astronomers has discovered jets of material ejected by still-forming young brown dwarfs, revealing the first direct…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have discovered what may be the first known example of a globular cluster about to be born. Globular…
Astronomers used VLA data, combined with VIMOS IFU data and HST imaging to reveal that a supermassive black hole is explosively heating and blasting around…
Astronomers have discovered a new example of a very rare type of galaxy that may yield valuable insight on how galaxies developed in the early…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers show a clear picture of hierarchical merging and the all-important first steps along this process when the Universe…
While testing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array’s new high-resolution capabilities, astronomers captured the best image ever of planet formation around an infant star. This revolutionary…
New research details the discovery of a streamer of gas flowing from a massive outer disc toward the inner reaches of the double star system…
Astronomers have identified a new galactic supercluster, clarifying the boundaries of our galactic neighborhood and establishing previously unrecognized linkages among various galaxy clusters in the…
Using a global network of radio telescopes, astronomers have measured the distance to the Pleiades at 443 light-years – accurate to within one percent. Astronomers…
A team of astronomers has discovered that filaments of star-forming gas near the Orion Nebula may be brimming with pebble-size particles. If confirmed, these particles…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, Very Long Baseline Array and other observatories, astronomers have identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. A…