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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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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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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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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Unexpected nitrogen discovered in ‘butterfly-shaped’ star cloud
The stellar formation area has a peculiar section of compounds
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Source of mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ revealed for the first time
“Now we can do real astrophysical analysis on the burst source and the galaxy that harbours it,” says James Cordes of Cornell University