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New System Makes the VLA Two Telescopes in One

The VLA will get a new system allowing it to continuously monitor the sky to study the ionosphere and detect short bursts of radio emission from astronomical objects.

Hidden Details Revealed in Nearby Starburst Galaxy

Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the GBT, astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82.

Infant Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’

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

Surprising Image Provides New Tool for Studying a Galaxy

Astronomers studying gas halos around nearby galaxies were surprised Very Large Array showed that one of their subjects is not a single galaxy, but two, superimposed on the sky to masquerade as one.

Artist's impression of Smith Cloud and Milky Way

Magnetic Force Field Shields Giant Gas Cloud

Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy.

ALMA Reveals Ghostly Shape of Coldest Place in the Universe

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

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