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2021.03.16

ALMA Soon to Resume Science Observations

While the impact of COVID-19 continues to affect our lives worldwide, ALMA staff have been moving forward on the long road toward recovering the Arrays and res…

2021.02.24

ALMA reveals the very seeds of stars in the forming

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Stars are known to form in so-called “molecular clouds”; collections of cold gas and dust in the space between stars. These stellar nurseries can contain a num…

2021.02.09

Discovery of Interaction between Jet and Disk Wind from a Star-Forming Accretion Disk

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An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has spatially resolved a magnet…

2021.01.28

ALMA / 45m / ASTE Users Meeting

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The ALMA / 45m / ASTE Users Meeting was held online from January 5 to 7, 2021. A total of 138 users and staff members of ALMA, Nobeyama 45-m telescope, and AST…

2021.01.26

ALMA Array Recovery Status Update (January 2021)

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While the COVID-19 pandemic persists all around the world, ALMA staff at the JAO and in the regions continue to work towards bringing the array back online, wi…

2021.01.15

Quasar Discovery Sets New Distance Record

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An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar yet found — a cosmic monster more than 13 billion light-years from Earth powered by…

2021.01.12

ALMA captures distant colliding galaxy dying out as it loses the ability to form stars

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Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Usin…