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Astronomers make distance measurement, GBT gets new spectrometer, and protoplanetary disks bulge are topics in March tip sheet.
A team of astronomers from Canada and the United States has used the ALMA Telescope to study the often deadly relationship between highly luminous O-type stars and nearby protostars in the Orion Nebula.

Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered the splattered remains of comets colliding together around a nearby star.

Merging galaxy clusters, big boost for big data, and exciting sessions at the 2014 AAAS meeting

Messier 82, the galaxy in which the nearest supernova in decades recently exploded, also is the closest galaxy that is undergoing a rapid burst of star formation, known as a starburst.

Using the National Science Foundation’s GBT, astronomer DJ Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what could be a never-before-seen river of hydrogen flowing through space.