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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) have found a long-sought ‘missing link’ between supernova explosions that generate gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and those that don’t. The scientists found that a stellar explosion seen in 2012 has many characteristics expected of one that generates a powerful burst of gamma rays, yet no such burst occurred.

ALMA reveals powerful magnetic field near black hole.

Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2015 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Dr. Nick Z. Scoville of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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

ALMA images asteroid Juno on its journey through solar system.

A pair of images of a young star, made 18 years apart, has revealed a dramatic difference that is providing astronomers with a unique, ‘real-time’ look at how massive stars develop in the earliest stages of their formation.