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Milky-Way-Like Galaxies Seen in their Awkward Adolescent Years
ALMA sees progenitors of Milky-Way-Like Galaxies
VLA, ALMA Team Up to Give First Look at Birthplaces of Most Current Stars
Astronomers have gotten their first look at exactly where most of today’s stars were born.
Death of Former Director Kwok-Yung (Fred) Lo
Death of former Director Kwok-Yung (Fred) Lo
ALMA Finds Compelling Evidence for Pair of Infant Planets around Young Star
New ALMA observation uncover compelling evidence that two planets orbit young star.
Embryonic Cluster Galaxy Immersed in Giant Cloud of Cold Gas
Astronomers studying a cluster of still-forming protogalaxies seen as they were more than 10 billion years ago have found that a giant galaxy in the center of the cluster is forming from a surprisingly-dense soup of molecular gas.
Tsunami of Stars and Gas Produces Dazzling Eye-shaped Feature in Galaxy
Glancing collision produces galactic “eyelids.”
Close Galactic Encounter Leaves “Nearly Naked” Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smaller galaxy’s nearly-naked supermassive black hole to emerge and speed away at more than 2,000 miles per second.
Nobel Laureate Adam Riess Free Lecture in Charlottesville
The Accelerating Universe with Nobel Laureate Adam Riess
Young Stellar System Caught in Act of Forming Close Multiples
For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system.
New ALMA Webcam Offers Stunning Views of the Array
A new HD camera reveals ALMA in stunning detail.
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