News – Page 19 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Dwarf galaxy WLM reveals its star-forming secrets.

Astronomers using ALMA detected the most distance star-forming clouds in normal galaxies in the early Universe.

ALMA detected ionized carbon in bevy of early galaxies.

ALMA weighs black hole at the center of NGC 1097.

ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign reveals hidden views of lensed galaxy SDP.81.

NRAO and Mini-Circuits entered into a licensing agreement to use NRAO-developed technology.

ALMA finds first example ever of globular cluster about to be born.

NRAO and its ACEAP partners select 2015 education ambassadors.

ALMA reveals powerful magnetic field near black hole.

Using ALMA, astronomers for the first time have discovered complex organic molecules in a protoplanetary disk.

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