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Double the Disks, Double the Discovery: New Insights into Planet Formation in DF Tau
Double the Disks, Double the Discovery: New Insights into Planet Formation in DF Tau
January 16, 2025 at 10:15 am | News Release

Tucked away in a star-forming region in the Taurus constellation, a pair of circling stars are displaying some unexpected…

Young Stars in the Milky Way’s Backyard Challenge Our Understanding of How They Form
Young Stars in the Milky Way’s Backyard Challenge Our Understanding of How They Form
January 15, 2025 at 2:15 pm | News Release

Astronomers have made groundbreaking discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb…

ALMA and the Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and its Jets
ALMA and the Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and its Jets
December 17, 2024 at 8:00 am | News Release

After taking the first images of black holes, the ground-breaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how…

ALMA Reveals Planets Can Form Under Harsh Radiation
ALMA Reveals Planets Can Form Under Harsh Radiation
November 18, 2024 at 11:25 am | News Release

New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) suggest that planet formation can occur even in harsh stellar…

Photo of the moon-illuminated ALMA radio telescope array with stars in the background.
ALMA Observes More Than Ever Before
October 14, 2024 at 9:00 am | News Release

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is thrilled to announce that a record-breaking total of 4,250 hours of science-quality…

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ALMA’s New Observing Cycle Kicks Off October 1st
September 25, 2024 at 3:55 pm | News Release

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) new observation cycle –Cycle 11- kicks off on October 1, 2024, starting a…

United Nations Secretary-General Visits ALMA
United Nations Secretary-General Visits ALMA
September 10, 2024 at 11:18 am | News Release

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), one of the largest and most sensitive telescopes of its kind in the…

ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in Planet-Forming Disk
ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in Planet-Forming Disk
September 4, 2024 at 11:00 am | News Release

Traditionally, planet formation has been described as a “bottom-up” process, as dust grains gradually collect into bigger conglomerations over…

Astronomers Make Highest-Resolution Observations Ever from Earth
Astronomers Make Highest-Resolution Observations Ever from Earth
August 27, 2024 at 9:00 am | News Release

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted test observations with the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface…

Supermassive Black Hole Appears to Grow Like a Baby Star
Supermassive Black Hole Appears to Grow Like a Baby Star
June 20, 2024 at 9:53 am | News Release

How do supermassive black holes get so big? An international team of astronomers, including scientists at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) have discovered a powerful, rotating, magnetic wind that they believe is helping a galaxy’s central supermassive black hole to grow. 

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