The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) -the largest astronomical project in existence- is a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed of 66 high precision antennas located in northern Chile. ALMA is an international partnership of ESO (Europe), NSF (U.S) and NINS (Japan) together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile We love the Cosmos!
Latest episodes
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ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star
Two independent teams of astronomers have used Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the i…
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ALMA Reveals the Birthplace of a Planetary System
Dust Accumulation to Form a New Planet Outside Just-Formed PlanetsThe Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by de…
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Ancient Galaxy Megamergers
The ALMA and APEX telescopes have peered deep into space — back to the time when the Universe was one tenth of its current age — and witnessed the beginnings of gargantuan cosmic p…
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ALMA Discover Exciting Structures in a Young Protoplanetary Disk That Support Planet Formation
Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover the tale-telling signs of planets in the young, likely planet-forming disk around the star MWC…
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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 in…
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ALMA and VLT Find Too Many Massive Stars in Starburst Galaxies, Near and Far
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered that both, starburst galaxies in the early Universe, an…
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ALMA Finds Most-Distant Oxygen in the Universe
Astronomers detected a faint but definite signal of oxygen in a galaxy located 13.28 billion light-years away from us, through observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submi…
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Massive Primordial Galaxies Found Swimming in Vast Ocean of Dark Matter
Astronomers expect that the first galaxies, those that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, would share many similarities with some of the dwarf galaxies we…
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Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found
Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it wa…
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Astronomers track bubbles on a star’s surface in the most detailed video yet
For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star, R Dor…
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ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in Planet-Forming Disk
Interferometry of stunning spiral arms around young star reveals gravity’s hand in planet formation.Traditionally, planet formation has been described as a “bottom-up” process, as…
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What 100,000 Star Factories in 74 Galaxies Tell Us about Star Formation across the Universe?
Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Some of the most significant differences among galaxies, however, relate to where and how they form new stars. Compelling resea…
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Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
Using the combined power of the Subaru Telescope and the ALMA radio telescope, astronomers have discovered a system where two distant galaxies, located 12.8 billion light-years awa…
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When Is a Nova Not a ‘Nova’? When a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf Collide
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers found evidence that a white dwarf(the elderly remains of a star like the Sun) an…
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Astronomers Capture the First Image of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration, was designed to capture images of a black…
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ALMA Campaign Provides Unprecedented Views of the Birth of Planets
Astronomers have already cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though we have learned much about these newfound worlds, there is still much we do not kno…
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ALMA Discovers Misaligned Rings in Planet-Forming Disk Around Triple Stars
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), two teams of astronomers have for the first time discovered a planet-forming disk with misaligned rings around a trip…
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How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young…
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Supermassive Black Hole Appears to Grow Like a Baby Star
How do supermassive black holes get so big? An international team of astronomers, including scientists at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory…
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It's Twins! Astronomers Discover Parallel Disks and Jets Erupting from a Pair of Young Stars
Most of the Universe is invisible to the human eye. The building blocks of stars are only revealed in wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. Astronomers recently used two very d…