27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
... the remnant into a veritable dust factory,” said Remy Indebetouw of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. "ALMA is now able to see this newly formed dust directly, and ongoing studies will help us understand how...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
... Rosetta mission and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a team of astronomers have found faint...in a system known as IRAS 16293-2422. While the new ALMA observation is the first detection ever of a stable organohalogen in...
09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
Using ALMA, astronomers have detected a complex prebiotic molecule that is a ... known as IRAS 16293-2422. In 2012, another group of researchers also using ALMA, discovered the simple sugar glycolaldehyde - a highly reactive compound that can help form...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
...was spotted by the team using the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile, is thought to have a total mass of about one...than the Sun. “These first results show that ALMA can detect dust structures orbiting around Proxima. Further ...
17 June 2019
Filling in the gaps of Jupiter-like planet formation
... as scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured a new high-resolution image of a ...into multiple narrow rings. Scientists taking images with ALMA are seeing an increasing complex array of structures...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
...When the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) started pointing its dishes at the disks.... Their hypothesis could also have implications for other protoplanetary disks that ALMA has observed too. A number of stars found by astronomers in ...
