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

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

Tucked away in a star-forming region in the Taurus constellation, a pair of circling stars are displaying some unexpected…

Astronomers have made groundbreaking discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb…

Posted on November 18, 2024

New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) suggest that planet formation can occur even in harsh stellar…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is thrilled to announce that a record-breaking total of 4,250 hours of science-quality…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) new observation cycle –Cycle 11- kicks off on October 1, 2024, starting a…

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