Latest NRAO News

RSS

Search Results

Search Terms: ALMA

Showing results 211 - 220 of 258
‘Death Stars’ in Orion Blast Planets before They Even Form
March 10, 2014 at 2:00 pm | News Release

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.

Artist concept of collisions in outer parts of a solar system
ALMA Sees Icy Wreckage in Nearby Solar System
March 6, 2014 at 7:00 pm | News Release

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

Dwarf galaxy NGC 4395
Dwarf Galaxies Give Clues to Origin of Supermassive Black Holes
January 6, 2014 at 7:40 pm | News Release

Astronomers have found more than 100 small, dwarf galaxies with characteristics indicating that they harbor massive black holes feeding on surrounding gas.

Artist's impression of Supernova 1987A
Supernova’s Super Dust Factory Imaged with ALMA
January 6, 2014 at 3:15 pm | News Release

Galaxies can be remarkably dusty places and supernovas are thought to be a primary source of that dust, especially in the early Universe.

N2D+ ALMA data on artist's impression background
Starless Cloud Cores Reveal Why Some Stars Are Bigger Than Others
December 20, 2013 at 4:00 pm | News Release

Massive stars – those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun – present an intriguing mystery: how…

Himiko
Infant Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’
November 21, 2013 at 2:29 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have…

The Boomerang Nebula
ALMA Reveals Ghostly Shape of Coldest Place in the Universe
October 23, 2013 at 1:16 pm | News Release

At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin, the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe.

Nearby galaxy NGC 1433
ALMA Observes Two Supermassive Black Holes
October 21, 2013 at 2:47 pm | News Release

Two teams of researchers using the ALMA telescope have made remarkably detailed observations of supermassive black holes caught in the act of ingesting matter and converting it into powerful jets of particles and energy.

ALMA antenna
Final Antenna Delivered to ALMA
September 26, 2013 at 7:16 pm | Announcement

Final Antenna Delivered to ALMA

NRAO Media Tip Sheet September 2015
NRAO Media Tip Sheet September 2015
September 23, 2013 at 2:00 am | Tip Sheet

NRAO Media Tip Sheet September 2015: Science, engineering, and technology milestones.

Showing results 211 - 220 of 258