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ALMA Pinpoints Pluto to Help Guide NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft

ALMA took a detailed look at the dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon to help guide NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

Young Binary Star System May Form Planets with Weird and Wild Orbits

While surveying a series of binary stars with ALMA, astronomers uncovered a pair of misaligned planet-forming disks around the young binary star HK Tau.

Remarkable White Dwarf Star Possibly Coldest, Dimmest Ever Detected

A team of astronomers using the GBT and VLBA has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected.

Gigantic Explosion Buried in Dust: ALMA Probes Environment around Gamma Ray Bursts

Researchers using ALMA report the first-ever detection of molecular gas — the fuel for star formation — in two galaxies that were previously rocked by gamma ray bursts.

ALMA Upgrade to Supercharge Event Horizon Telescope, Astronomy’s ‘Killer App’

Upgrade to ALMA soon will help astronomers make the first images of a black hole as part of the Event Horizon Telescope.

Colliding galaxy clusters MACS J0717+3745

Image Release: A Violent, Complex Scene of Colliding Galaxy Clusters

Astronomers using the Very Large Array and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have produced a spectacular image revealing new details of violent collisions involving at least four clusters of galaxies.

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