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…
Cosmic Mysteries
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2019.11.18
ALMA Reveals Origin of Mysterious Blast: AT2018cow originated from supernova in a strongly-magnetized, dense environment
The origin of the cosmic explosion “AT2018cow” discovered on June 16, 2018 is still controversial; it could have originated from a tidal disruption or from a s…
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…
2019.10.09
Rarest form of CO Provides Hint to the Birth of Planets around Young Star
Astronomers have discovered the rarest stable carbon monoxide isotope molecule, 13C17O, in the dust and gas disk around a young star usin…
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…
2019.08.08
ALMA Identified Dark Ancestors of Massive Elliptical Galaxies - Unexpected Hidden Galaxies Question Theories of Universe Evolution
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) identified 39 faint galaxies that are not seen with the Hubble Space Telescope’s deep…
2019.07.12
“Moon Forming” Circumplanetary Disk Discovered around Young Planet in Distant Star System
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of a circumplanetary disk, the planet-girding b…
2019.07.08
Massive Stars Grow Same Way as Light Stars, Just Bigger
Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of a massive baby star. They found that it shares many common feature…
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…
2019.06.26
ALMA Pinpoints the Formation Site of Planet around Nearest Young Star
Researchers using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) found a small dust concentration in the disk around TW Hydrae, the nearest young star. It…
2019.06.18
ALMA Finds Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies
Researchers using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and dust from a galaxy in the early Universe 13 billi…
2019.05.16
ALMA Discovers Aluminum around Young Star
Researchers using ALMA data discovered an aluminum-bearing molecule for the first time around a young star. Aluminum rich inclusions found in meteorites are so…
2019.04.10
Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to ca…
2019.03.28
Spiraling giants: witnessing the birth of a massive binary star system
Scientists from the RIKEN in Japan, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Virginia in the USA and collaborators have made observati…
2019.03.20
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Star Formation and the Rich Dust from Ancient Stars
Researchers have detected a radio signal from abundant interstellar dust in MACS0416_Y1, a galaxy 13.2 billion light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. …
2019.03.14
ALMA Observes the Formation Sites of Solar-System-like Planets
Researchers have spotted the formation sites of planets around a young star resembling our Sun. Two rings of dust around the star, at distances comparable to t…
2019.02.28
Hiding Black Hole Found
Astronomers have detected a stealthy black hole from its effects on an interstellar gas cloud. This intermediate mass black hole is one of over 100 million qui…
2019.02.26
ALMA Differentiates Two Birth Cries from a Single Star –Strong evidence of independent origins for two gas flows
Astronomers have unveiled the enigmatic origins of two different gas streams from a baby star. Using ALMA, they found that the slow outflow and the high speed …
NEW ARTICLES
2025 8.8
The Universe’s Secret Harvest: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”
Super high-resolution ALMA and JWST observations unveil unexpected substructure and underlying gas dynamics in a faint,…
2025 8.5
Discovery of Protoplanetary Disk Caught in Explosion Driven by Stellar Jet
A research team led by Masataka Aizawa of Ibaraki University studied a protoplanetary disk around the young star WSB 52…
2025 6.26
Development of Total Power GPU Spectrometer was approved by ALMA Board
In April 2025, the ALMA Board approved the development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array (*) designed and deve…
