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Radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy in the Phoenix Cluster

Black-Hole-Powered Jets Forge Fuel for Star Formation

February 14, 2017 at 4:00 pm | News Release

Powerful radio jets enable cold gas to form in heart of the Phoenix Cluster.

Applications Accepted for 2017 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program

January 18, 2017 at 7:33 pm | News Release

Applications for ACEAP 2017 due Feb. 19.

Image Release: ALMA Reveals Sun in New Light

January 17, 2017 at 2:00 pm | News Release

ALMA turns its amazing vision to our Sun.

First Light for ALMA’s Band 5

December 21, 2016 at 1:49 pm | News Release

ALMA achieves “first light” with Band 5

Milky-Way-Like Galaxies Seen in their Awkward Adolescent Years

December 20, 2016 at 7:00 pm | News Release

ALMA sees progenitors of Milky-Way-Like Galaxies

VLA, ALMA Team Up to Give First Look at Birthplaces of Most Current Stars

December 20, 2016 at 5:34 pm | News Release

Astronomers have gotten their first look at exactly where most of today’s stars were born.

ALMA image of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star HD 163296

ALMA Finds Compelling Evidence for Pair of Infant Planets around Young Star

December 12, 2016 at 4:00 pm | News Release

New ALMA observation uncover compelling evidence that two planets orbit young star.

Tsunami of Stars and Gas Produces Dazzling Eye-shaped Feature in Galaxy

November 4, 2016 at 5:00 pm | News Release

Glancing collision produces galactic “eyelids.”

Young Stellar System Caught in Act of Forming Close Multiples

October 26, 2016 at 5:00 pm | News Release

For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system.

ALMA as seen from newly-installed camera

New ALMA Webcam Offers Stunning Views of the Array

October 20, 2016 at 12:00 pm | Announcement

A new HD camera reveals ALMA in stunning detail.

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