Using the both ALMA Observatory and the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have imaged the cold, rock-strewn rings encircling the planet Uranus. Rather than observing the reflected sunlight from these rings, ALMA and the VLT imaged the millimeter and mid-infrared “glow” naturally emitted by the frigidly cold particles of the rings themselves.
10 – ALMA Top 10: Inside Jupiter’s Storms
Swirling clouds, big colorful bands, giant storms, here is the beautiful and turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter in radio waves.
Animated Interferometry Infographic
Infographic depicting interferometry and the concepts that make it work.
Animation of Unified AGN Model
Astronomers used the NSF’s Karl Jansky Very Large Array to observe the dusty, doughnut-shaped torus surrounding the black hole and accretion disk at the center of a powerful radio galaxy. Animation depicts how the torus can obscure different features when viewed from different angles. This explains how the same type of “central engine” can appear different, leading to different names for objects seen from different angles.
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 explosion that created it.
A First, Salt Discovered in Young Stellar System
New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years from Earth in the disk surrounding a massive young star.