ALMA
Astronomers See Snow … In Space!
There's an excellent chance of frost in this corner of the universe: astronomers have spotted a "snow line" in a…
ALMA Spots a Nascent Stellar Monster
Even though it comprises over 99% of the mass of the Solar System (with Jupiter taking up most of the…
Should This Alien World Even Exist? This Young Disk Could Challenge Planet-Formation Theories
Take a close look at the blurry image above. See that gap in the cloud? That could be a planet…
ALMA and the Comet Factory
"Ooompah, loompah, roopity rust... ALMA finds comets hiding in dust." According to many studies over recent years, astronomers are aware…
Early Galaxies Churned Out Stars Like Crazy
Talk about an assembly line! Some early-stage galaxies created stars thousands of times faster than our Milky Way does today, according…
A Radio Astronomer’s Paradise
Last month a dozen journalists from around North America were guests of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and got to…
ALMA Eyes Most Distant Star-forming Galaxy
Let's turn down the lights and set the stage... We're moving off through space, looking not only at distant galaxies,…
Dying Star Blows Surprising Spiral Bubble
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, astronomers found an unexpected spiral structure surrounding the red giant star R…
Early “Elemental” Galaxy Found 12.4 Billion Light Years Away
This is definitely a story about a galaxy long ago and far away. An international team of researchers using the…