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ALMA

A Radio Astronomer’s Paradise

April 1, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Last month a dozen journalists from around North America were guests of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and got to take a trip to the Atacama Desert in Chile to attend the inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observatory — [...]

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ALMA Eyes Most Distant Star-forming Galaxy

March 13, 2013

Let’s turn down the lights and set the stage… We’re moving off through space, looking not only at distant galaxies, but the incredibly distant past. Once upon a time astronomers assumed that star formation began in massive, bright galaxies as a concentrated surge. Now, new observations taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are [...]

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Dying Star Blows Surprising Spiral Bubble

October 10, 2012

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, astronomers found an unexpected spiral structure surrounding the red giant star R Sculptoris shown here in this visualization. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Sometimes what we can’t see is just as surprising as what lies directly in front of us. This especially holds true in a new finding from [...]

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Early “Elemental” Galaxy Found 12.4 Billion Light Years Away

June 22, 2012

This is definitely a story about a galaxy long ago and far away. An international team of researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has observed a “submillimeter galaxy” located about 12.4 billion light-years away. Their observations have revealed that the elemental composition of this galaxy in the early universe, at only 1.3 billion [...]

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