2020.10.01
Astronomers Capture Stellar Winds in Unprecedented Detail
Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a set of stellar winds around aging stars and present an explanation for th…
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2020.09.04
Misaligned Planet-Forming Rings around Triple Young Stars
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a peculiar dust ring system around the young triple st…
2020.08.13
ALMA sees most distant Milky Way look-alike
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed an extremely distant and therefore very young galaxy that looks surpris…
2020.08.07
Stellar Egg Hunt with ALMA – Tracing Evolution from Embryo to Baby Star
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and revealed their evolutio…
2020.08.04
ALMA Captures Stirred-Up Planet Factory
Planet-forming environments can be much more complex and chaotic than previously expected. This is evidenced by a new image of the star RU Lup, made with the A…
2020.07.31
ALMA Finds Possible Sign of Neutron Star in Supernova 1987A
Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A. Based on observations of the Atacama Large Millime…
2020.03.05
ALMA Spots Metamorphosing Aged Star
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the very moment when an old star first starts t…
2020.02.21
How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming dis…
2020.02.06
ALMA catches beautiful outcome of stellar fight
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted a peculiar gas cloud that resulted from a confrontation between two star…
2019.11.21
Feeding a Baby Star through a Whirlpool in Space
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected a pair of spiral arms in an accretion disk around a baby star. Interestingly…
2019.11.14
Two Cosmic Peacocks show Violent History of the Magellanic Clouds
Two peacock-shaped gaseous clouds were revealed in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA…
2019.10.18
A Cosmic Pretzel
Astronomers using ALMA have obtained an extremely high-resolution image showing two disks in which young stars are growing, fed by a complex pretzel-shaped net…
2019.10.15
ALMA explores a Cosmic Jellyfish
Using the detailed eyes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have mapped the intense ta…
2019.08.27
ALMA Shows What’s Inside Jupiter’s Storms
Swirling clouds, big colorful belts, giant storms — the beautiful and turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter has been showcased many times. But what is going on below…
2019.07.11
2019 Solar Eclipse Image from ALMA
The Total Solar Eclipse of July 2, 2019, was partially visible from the ALMA observatory with 76% of the Sun covered by the Moon. Against all the odds, despite…
2019.06.28
Planetary Rings of Uranus ‘Glow’ in Cold Light
The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — and they stand out as surprisingly bright in ne…
2019.02.08
Liberal Sprinkling of Salt Discovered around a Young Star
New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years from Earth in the disk surrounding a massive young sta…
2019.02.05
Retreating Snow Line Reveals Organic Molecules around Young Star
Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori. A sudden outburst from this star is releasing molecules …
2019.01.10
What 30,000 Star Factories in 74 Galaxies Tell Us about Star Formation across the Universe
The ALMA telescope is conducting an unprecedented survey of nearby disk galaxies — a total of 74 so far, encompassing a total of 750 hours of observations of 3…
2018.12.12
The Epoch of Planet Formation, Times Twenty - ALMA Campaign Provides Unprecedented Views of the Birth of Planets
Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is st…
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2020 10.27
Galaxies in the Infant Universe were Surprisingly Mature
Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This was shown by an int…
2020 10.22
ALMA Shows Volcanic Impact on Io’s Atmosphere
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect…
2020 10.1
ALMA starts the process of recovering the telescope array
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With the improving pandemic situation in Chile, ALMA is now scheduled to begin the long process of recovering the teles…
