2022.04.07
Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Yet
An international astronomer team has discovered the most distant galaxy candidate to date, named HD1, which is about 13.5 billion light-years away. This discov…
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2022.01.13
Stars’ secret embraces revealed by ALMA
Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so close that one engulfs the other - with far-reaching consequences. When a team of astr…
2021.11.04
A Cosmic Whodunit: ALMA Study Confirms What’s Robbing Galaxies of Their Star-Forming Gas
Astronomers examining the nearby Universe with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have just completed the largest high-resolut…
2021.10.11
ALMA celebrates 10 years of science
At ALMA, we are celebrating doubly: on the one hand, October is the month of Science in Chile, and, on the other, we commemorate in ALMA the ten years since th…
2021.09.30
ALMA Scientists Uncover the Mystery of Early Massive Galaxies Running on Empty
Early massive galaxies—those that formed in the three billion years following the Big Bang —should have contained large amounts of cold hydrogen gas, the fuel …
2021.09.15
Untangling the Formation of Planetary Systems with Deuterium
An international research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the distribution of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in plan…
2021.07.28
Astronomers make first clear detection of a moon-forming disk around an exoplanet
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a diskaround a planet outside our Solar S…
2021.07.20
EHT pinpoints dark heart of the nearest radio galaxy
An international team anchored by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is known for capturing the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M…
2021.07.01
ALMA Observes Deep into Chaotic Planetary Nursery
Planet formation is still a mystery. Astronomers have been studying protoplanetary discs for decades, trying to solve the details of planetary genesis. Thanks …
2021.06.15
Cosmic Cartographers Map Nearby Universe Revealing the Diversity of Star-Forming Galaxies
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has completed the first census of molecular clouds in the nearby Universe, …
2021.04.14
Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievem…
2021.03.24
Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed today a new view of the massive object at the …
2021.02.09
Discovery of Interaction between Jet and Disk Wind from a Star-Forming Accretion Disk
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has spatially resolved a magnet…
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…
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…
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2022 5.12
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
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Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Thi…
2022 4.19
Four Members of ALMA Project Receive the 2021 Shoichiro Yoshida Memorial/Nikon Astronomy Achievement Award
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The 2021 Shoichiro Yoshida Memorial/Nikon Astronomy Achievement Award was awarded to four members of the ALMA Project. …
2022 4.7
Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Yet
An international astronomer team has discovered the most distant galaxy candidate to date, named HD1, which is about 13…
