2017.09.21
Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble
Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae. These observa…
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2017.09.11
Explosive Birth of Stars Swells Galactic Cores - ALMA spots transforming disk galaxies
Astronomers found that active star formation upswells galaxies, like yeast helps bread rise. Using three powerful telescopes on the ground and in orbit, they o…
2017.06.13
ALMA Hears Birth Cry of a Massive Baby Star
An international research team led by a Japanese astronomer has determined how the enigmatic gas flow from a massive baby star is launched. The team used the A…
2017.06.09
ALMA Returns to Boomerang Nebula
Companion Star Provides Chilling Power of ‘Coldest Object in the Universe’
2017.05.19
ALMA Eyes Icy Ring around Young Planetary System
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of t…
2017.05.09
Universe Observed through Visual Acuity of 120,000/20 [vol.1] Astronomers Stunned by HL Tauri
In 2014, astronomers were stunned by the ultra-high resolution image of HL Tauri (also called HL Tau) observed by ALMA, revealing a key element to unveil the f…
2017.04.20
The onset of an extra-solar system - feeding a baby star with a dusty hamburger
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has made a new high-fidelity im…
2017.04.07
ALMA Captures Explosive Star Birth
Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images. Around 500 years ago, a pair of adolescent protostars had a pe…
2017.03.03
An Extraordinary Celestial Spiral with a Twist
An international team of astronomers, led by Hyosun Kim in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has found a way of deriving…
2017.01.18
ALMA starts Observing the Sun
New images taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal surprising details of the Sun, including the dark, contorted center of an …
2016.11.07
Tsunami of Stars and Gas Produces Dazzling Eye-shaped Feature in Galaxy
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk o…
2016.10.27
Young Stellar System Caught in Act of Forming Close Multiples
For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a…
2016.08.17
ALMA Explores Orion's Turbulent Border
These images show the edge of the vast molecular cloud that lies behind the Orion Nebula, 1400 light-years from Earth. The image of the left shows a wide-field…
2012.10.11
Surprising Spiral Structure Spotted by ALMA
-- New observations reveal the secrets of a dying star
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a totally unexpected spiral structure in the material around the old …
2012.06.01
ALMA turns its eyes to Centaurus A
A new image of the center of the distinctive galaxy Centaurus A, made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows how the new observato…
2012.04.12
ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary System
A new observatory still under construction has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system that can provide valuable clu…
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2017 10.18
ALMA receives award for its contribution to the progress of Chile
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The prestigious Chilean business organization ICARE (Instituto Chileno de Administración Racional de Empresas) chose th…
2017 10.12
Eiji Akiyama Awarded “Best Researcher 2016” by the Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
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Eiji Akiyama, a specially-appointed assistant professor at the NAOJ Chile Observatory, received the “Best Researcher 20…
2017 10.3
Astronomers Discover Traces of Methyl Chloride around Infant Stars and Nearby Comet - Dashing Hopes Molecule Could Point to Life on Other Planets
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected the faint molecular fingerprint…
