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2017.10.03
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected the faint molecular fingerprint of methyl chloride – a chemical commonl…
2017.09.28
An image of clouds accelerating due to gravitational scattering caused by the intermediate-mass black hole. Credit: Tomoharu Oka (Keio University) Professor To…
2017.09.21
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…
2017.09.11
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…
2017.08.31
ALMA has been used to detect turbulent reservoirs of cold gas surrounding distant starburst galaxies. By detecting CH+ for the first time in the distant Univer…
2017.08.07
“Seeing a black hole” has been a long-cherished desire for many astronomers, but now, thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global mm-VLBI Array …
2017.08.02
Astronomers observed a galaxy cluster 9.4 billion light-years away using the ALMA radio telescope array and found evidence that hot gas strips away the cold ga…
2017.07.29
Saturn’s frigid moon Titan has a curious atmosphere. In addition to a hazy mixture of nitrogen and hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, Titan’s atmosphere als…
2017.07.05
An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has used the Atacama Large …
2017.07.01
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers obtained a critical clue to an underlying problem: how are widely separated twin sta…
2017.06.28
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) have caused quite a stir with their recent observations of the supermassive black hole at…
2017.06.21
A black hole is an extraordinary object with extremely strong gravity, but when observed from Earth it would look like a tiny dot. To capture an image of a bla…
2017.06.15
ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life. This i…
2017.06.13
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
Companion Star Provides Chilling Power of ‘Coldest Object in the Universe’
2017.06.01
Can you imagine yourself hearing only the bass of a music recording? Or only seeing objects of a particular colour? Well, in a way, you experience this every d…
2017.05.19
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of t…
2017.05.17
We know that black holes are fascinating objects, capable of bending not only our minds but also reality itself. They squeeze matter into an extraordinarily mi…
2017.05.09
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…
2017.05.09
Many people are curious about the existence of extraterrestrial life. In fact, we have already started to obtain some evidences of it. With the advancement of …
An international team led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan succesfully detected the e…
On December 11, a lecture organized by the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern was held as part…
The preliminary design review for the new Data Transmission System (DTS) for the ALMA Telescope has been completed succ…
