Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
A Tadpole-Shaped Cloud of Gas is Whirling Around a Black Hole
A team of astronomers from Japan have found a strange "Tadpole" shaped dust cloud near the center of our galaxy,…
A Very Young Star is Forming Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
An international team of astronomers spotted a young, massive star orbiting very close to Sagittarius A*, which was previously thought…
Machine Learning is a Powerful Tool When Searching for Exoplanets
A new machine learning technique will help astronomers detect young exoplanets in disks surrounding other stars.
Rare Triple Galaxy Merger With at Least Two Supermassive Black Holes
One of the best things about that universe is that there is so much to it. If you look hard…
Titan’s Atmosphere Has All the Ingredients For Life. But Not Life as We Know It
In a series of new studies on Saturn's moon Titan, researchers have found more indications that there could be exotic…
This Distorted Circle is Actually a Galaxy That Looked Very Similar to the Milky Way, Shortly After the Big Bang
Using ALMA, a European team of astronomers was able to observe a galaxy as it looked 12 billion years ago…
Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Neutron Star Remnant From Supernova 1987a
Recent observations and theortetical work have brought us one step closer to resolving the mystery of what lies at the…
Bizarre Double Star System Flipped its Planetary Disk on its Side
An international research team recently found a binary star system with a debris disk that orbits around their poles.
Here are 20 Protoplanetary Disks, With Newly Forming Planets Carving Out Gaps in the Gas and Dust
A new survey by an ALMA collaboration has resulted in stunning images of 20 nearby protoplanetary disks, which shows the…
Astronomers See a Pileup of 14 Separate Galaxies in the Early Universe
Using the ALMA array, international team of scientists recently observed 14 galaxies in the early Universe that are about to…