Astronomers have obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disc feeding the growth of a massive baby star
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Astronomers have witnessed polarised light inside a gamma-ray burst
This is the first time astronomers have ever detected the polarisation of radio waves within the Universe’s most powerful jets
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Large radio telescope finds the earliest example of galaxies merging
Two galaxies have been seen merging 13 billion years ago, less than a billion years after the Universe was born
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A ring of cool, interstellar gas was detected around the Milky Way’s central black hole
By imaging this cool disk of gas rotate around the supermassive black hole, astronomers can watch how the accretion process unfolds
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Newly born star spotted ejecting gas from both ends
The powerful radio capabilities of ALMA have allowed astronomers to inspect the gas outflow of the young star MMS5/OMC-3
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Odd stellar couple discovered by super telescope array
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has discovered that two young stars forming from the same swirling protoplanetary disc could in fact be twins
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What’s the secret to the most luminous galaxy’s incredible brightness?
The secret ingredient is stealing the material from at least three neighbouring galaxies
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Four massive planets have been discovered orbiting a distant young star
This unusual collection of massive planets makes astronomers question how planets are formed
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Water vapour has been spotted being ejected from a newly forming star
Using ALMA’s previously untested high-frequency capabilities, ALMA was able to detect make the detection of a rare cosmic molecule
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Radioactive molecules discovered in distant stellar remnant
Observations using ALMA find radioactive isotope aluminium-26 from the remnant CK Vulpeculae
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Students identify the foundations for massive stars
Undergraduate students of the University of Arizona searched 101 clouds of gas to find those that may be in the first phases of forming massive stars
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Planets form before their host star matures
This discovery comes from observations of the developing star TMC1A, located in the constellation Taurus
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Astronomers detect the most distant oxygen ever discovered
This oxygen detection provides strong evidence that star formation occurred just 250 million years after the Big Bang
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Early galaxies found to rotate like whirlpools
The gas within the galactic structures, which were formed less then a billion years after the Big Bang, have been discovered to have a ‘swirling’ behaviour
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New images of red giant star could reveal the Sun’s future
W Hydrae had the same starting mass as our nearest star, but it’s billions of years more evolved
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Astronomers uncover more about the making of baby stars
By studying distant galaxies, astronomers could reveal the large amounts of atomic hydrogen and how it affects star formation
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Giant telescope array captures ageing star blowing smoky bubble
Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae
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Explosive stars shaped the cores of early galaxies
By observing galaxies that formed 3 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers have introduced a new evolution story for galaxies.
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Astronomers observe complex molecules in starburst galaxies
The detection of these complex molecules have shown huge hidden reservoirs of turbulent gas in distant structures
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Extraordinary details uncovered about far-flung member of our Solar System
At about three times the current distance of Pluto from the Sun, DeeDee is the second most distant known trans-Neptunian object with a confirmed orbit