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An artist's interpretation of the highest-latitude neutral hydrogen clouds ever detected within the Fermi Bubbles in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. The cold clouds reside more than 13,000 light-years above the Galactic center, in a region where frigid materials like this were never expected to be discovered.
Galactic Mystery: How “Ice Cubes” Survive in the Milky Way’s Blazing Bubbles
July 7, 2025 at 10:44 am | News Release

A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery using the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF…
This artist's impression of the formation of an early universe galaxy featuring clumps of star-forming galaxies, with carbon gas shown in red, and dark dust shown in black. This process is documented in detail throughout the many galaxies observed in ALMA’s CRISTAL survey.
ALMA Reveals Stunning Details of Infant Galaxies in the Early Universe
July 1, 2025 at 11:00 am | News Release

Astronomers are getting a much clearer picture of what galaxies looked like in the early Universe, thanks to a…
ASM-1 in testing at the Green Bank Observatory in Green Bank, WV in May 2023. Insights from this first prototype were folded into the design of the ASM-2 device.
Protecting the Cosmos: NSF NRAO Leads Critical Spectrum Studies to Safeguard Radio Astronomy
June 24, 2025 at 8:00 am | News Release

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) has received funding to expand its study of…
An artist rendition of comet C/2014 UN271, the largest known comet in the Oort Cloud.
Largest Oort Cloud Comet Ever Observed Reveals Its Secrets with ALMA’s Powerful Gaze
June 16, 2025 at 9:46 pm | News Release

A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein)—the largest…
Unusual stellar nurseries near our galaxy’s center puzzle scientists
Unusual stellar nurseries near our galaxy’s center puzzle scientists
June 13, 2025 at 11:00 am | News Release

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in the galactic center of the Milky Way.
Artist’s concept of protoplanetary disk, like the thirty studied for the ALMA AGE-PRO survey. The lifetime of the gas within the disk determines the timescale for planetary growth.
ALMA Reveals Lives of Planet-Forming Disks
June 13, 2025 at 9:00 am | News Release

An international team of astronomers has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young…
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