Magnetic Field of a Spiral Galaxy
An image from the VLA dramatically reveals the huge extent of the magnetic field of a spiral galaxy seen...
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Fast Radio Burst tracked down by VLA
For the first time, astronomers pinpointed the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), which is a phenomena where...
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Artist impression of distant, dusty galaxy
Artist impression of what the distant, dusty galaxy called MAMBO-9 would look like in visible light. The galaxy has...
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Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC 6240
Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC 6240.
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The Active Galactic Nucleus of 3C 120
Still image from an animation depicting the jets emitted by the black hole in galaxy 3C 120.
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HL Tau: Birth of Planets Revealed in Astonishing Detail
ALMA image of the young star HL Tau and its protoplanetary disk. This best image ever of planet formation...
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Wolfe Disk Artist Impression
Artist impression of the Wolfe Disk, a massive rotating disk galaxy in the early, dusty universe. The galaxy was...
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Comet 2I/Borisov Has an Unusual Composition
Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, a mysterious visitor from the depths of space, is the first conclusively identified comet from another...
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A Spooky View of Galactic Gas
This image may look spooky to you, but astronomers see a galaxy. It was captured by the Very Large...
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PHANGS-ALMA Survey: NGC0628
While conducting a census of nearly 100 galaxies in the nearby Universe, the PHANGS survey observed NGC0628, a galaxy...
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Twenty Protoplanetary Disks Imaged by ALMA
A team of astronomers has conducted ALMA‘s first large-scale, high-resolution survey of protoplanetary disks. Known as the Disk Substructures...
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ALMA First Image
In this composite image of the merging cores of the Antennae Galaxies, optical (white and pink), radio (blue) and...
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Megamasers and Cosmology
Artist's conception illustrating a disk of water-bearing gas orbiting the supermassive black hole at the core of a distant...
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ALMA Sees a Baby Solar System
Observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope of the disc of gas and cosmic dust around...
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Artist’s impression of the disc of dust and gas around a brown dwarf
This artist’s impression shows the disc of gas and cosmic dust around a brown dwarf. Rocky planets are thought...
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How to Make a Millisecond Pulsar
The diagram outlines each step needed to create a pulsar with a superfast spin. The Standard Scenario (1-4): 1. A...
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Pulsar Escaping its Supernova Birthplace
Artist's animation of Pulsar J0002+6216 speeding away from its birthplace and escaping the shell of debris from the supernova...
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PHANGS-ALMA Survey: NGC1385
During a survey of nearly 100 galaxies in the nearby Universe, the PHANGS team observed NGC1385, a galaxy featuring...
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PHANGS-ALMA
ALMA is revealing new insights into the relationship between star-forming clouds and their host galaxies.
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04 – ALMA Top 10 – PHANGS: A New Survey Unravels the Relationship between Star-forming Clouds and their Host Galaxies.
Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Some of the most significant differences among galaxies, however,...
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Antennae Galaxies
Hard to believe that this was once a pair of spiral galaxies. Undergoing a violent merger, the well-named Antennae...
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ALMA Discovers Unexpected Trove of Star-forming Gas in Phoenix Cluster
Video explaining the complex relationship between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy in the Phoenix Cluster, as...
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Lining up the VLA antennas
There are 27 dish antennas within the Very Large Array that are identical 25-meter telescopes working together as one....
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Stellar Embryos in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Contain Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules
Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered chemical “fingerprints” of methanol, dimethyl ether, and methyl formate in the Large Magellanic Cloud....
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VLA Deep Field
Staring at a small patch of sky for more than 50 hours with the ultra-sensitive Karl G. Jansky Very...
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Glowing Core of Brilliant Galaxy NGC 5643
This composite image shows the center of a galaxy named NGC 5643. This galaxy is located 55 million light-years...
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Milky Way-Like Galaxies in the Early Universe
Astronomers using ALMA have directly observed a pair of Milky Way-like galaxies seen as they appeared billions of years...
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Illustration of a High Redshift Galaxy
Artist impression of a progenitor of Milky Way-like galaxy in the early universe with a background quasar shinning through...
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Long Wavelength Demonstrator Array
The Long Wavelength Array is a collection of 256 antennas stationed at the Very Large Array site outside Magdalena,...
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A Disk of Starforming Gas
Artist's conception of the disk of star-forming gas around the center of the galaxy hosting the quasar PSS J2322+1944....
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#WAWUA – ALMA Observes the Invisible Universe
With colorful artwork and clever animations, these short videos delve into topics that explain the fundamentals of radio astronomy,...
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ngVLA Artist Impressions: Time Domain, Cosmology, Physics Sketches
In June of 2017, NRAO invited four artists to a conference at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology...
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Students Use the 40-foot
The 40-foot telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia is used as an educational instrument.
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Orphan GRB Discovered with VLASS
Series of radio images of FIRST J1419+3940 from 1993 to 2017 show its slow fade. Astronomers comparing data from...
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Giant Antenna in Nancay, France
In Nancay, France looms this enormous radio telescope. This portion of it is a section of a sphere that...
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