ALMA – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

ALMA Reveals Lives of Planet-Forming Disks

An international team of astronomers has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered a key piece of the puzzle in how rocky planets, such…

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

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

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

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

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