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exoALMA Gives Astronomers A New Look At How Planets Are Formed

Posted on April 28, 2025April 24, 2025

A team of international astronomers have embarked on an exciting new project to hunt for planets forming around young…

ALMA Detects First-Ever Hydrogen Recombination Lines From Proplyd Disks in Densely Packed Orion Nebula Cluster

Posted on April 9, 2025April 9, 2025

Most stars form in clusters, where hundreds to thousands of stars coevolve in proximal environmental conditions that dictate how…

A New Opportunity to Explore the Universe

Posted on April 2, 2025April 2, 2025

The ALMA Observatory, in collaboration with its partners, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the European Southern Observatory…

Astronomers Discover “Space Tornadoes” Around the Milky Way’s Core

Posted on March 19, 2025March 13, 2025

Swirling through the Milky Way’s central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core…

Hidden Cosmic Fuel Tank Found in Infant Galaxy Cluster

Posted on March 17, 2025March 21, 2025

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), along with complementary data from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), have…

Image showing an active M dwarf star, Proxima Centuari, in red with many star spots, ejecting a large stellar flare in yellow and white. Proxima Centauri b, a small Earth-like planet is seen in the distant right of the image.

Small Star, Mighty Flares: ALMA Shares New View of Proxima Centauri

Posted on March 17, 2025March 13, 2025

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known…

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