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ALMA Reveals Planets Can Form Under Harsh Radiation

New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) suggest that planet formation can occur even in harsh stellar environments previously thought to be inhospitable.An international team of astronomers used ALMA to capture...
18-Nov-2024 1:25 PM EST Add to Favorites

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A Cosmic Chemical Breakthrough: Astronomers Discover New Building Blocks for Complex Organic Matter

The element carbon is a building block for life, both on Earth and potentially elsewhere in the vast reaches of space. There should be a lot of carbon in space, but surprisingly, it's not always easy to find. While it can be observed in many places,...
23-Oct-2024 2:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in Planet-Forming Disk

Traditionally, planet formation has been described as a “bottom-up” process, as dust grains gradually collect into bigger conglomerations over tens of millions of years: from microns, to centimeters, to meters, to kilometers.
4-Sep-2024 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Astronomers, Satellite Internet Provider Develop New System to Share the Sky

Astronomers learn about the universe by pointing their telescopes to the sky. But what happens when a satellite comes between them and the cosmological objects they hope to study?
8-Aug-2024 4:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Plasma Bubbles and the “Engine” of Fast Radio Bursts

Socorro, NM – The US National Science Foundation (NSF) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have played a pivotal role in uncovering the origins of persistent emissions observed in some...
8-Aug-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Precision Measurements Offer Clues to Magnetar’s Cosmic Origin

An international team of astronomers have used a powerful array of radio telescopes to discover new insights about a magnetar that’s only a few hundred years old. By capturing precise measurements of the magnetar’s position and velocity, new...
8-Aug-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Telescope Tag-Team Discovers Galactic Cluster’s Bizarre Secrets

Towards the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, in the constellation Sagittarius, astronomers have discovered  10 monstrous neutron stars. Astronomers already knew that 39 pulsars call Terzan 5 home.
16-Jul-2024 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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ALMA Observations Reveal New Insights into Planet Formation in Binary Star Systems

At the 244th American Astronomical Society meeting, researchers presented groundbreaking findings on planet formation in circumstellar disks around young binary stars
10-Jun-2024 11:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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