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How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets

Posted on February 20, 2020March 3, 2020

An international team of astronomers used ALMA and the VLA to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of star formation.

Featured Video: Black Hole Eats Star

Posted on November 29, 2019November 25, 2019

Join Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory for a tour of one of the most disruptive events in Universe.

A Weakened Black Hole Allows its Galaxy to Awaken

Posted on November 18, 2019November 18, 2019

Astronomers have found the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. The discovery revealed new details of how supermassive black holes affect their host galaxies.

First Canadian ALMA Large Program to Investigate the Impact of Galaxy Environment on Star Formation

Posted on September 18, 2019September 20, 2019

The first ever Canadian-led Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Large Program has been approved for cycle 7. Dr. Brown and his colleagues will use the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) to study the influence of galaxy environment on star formation in the Virgo Cluster.

New Method May Resolve Difficulty in Measuring Universe’s Expansion

Posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019

Radio telescope observations have made it possible for astronomers to use mergers of neutron-star pairs as a valuable new tool for measuring the Universe’s expansion.

Astronomers Find “Cannonball Pulsar” Speeding Through Space

Posted on March 19, 2019March 27, 2019

VLA image shows the trail of a speeding pulsar pointing directly back at the center of the debris shell from the supernova explosion that created it.

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