February 2016
How to Build Planets
... explains Antonio Hales, an Operations Astronomer based at the ALMA telescope in Chile who specialises in protoplaneary disc formation. ... using the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA), images have revealed a number of striking ...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
... was then used to measure the object’s thermal emission. The team note in their research that “the ALMA facility is easily capable of radiometric detection of a 500 km body at > 90 AU distance. Hence it will be possible to establish sizes and albedos...
03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
... technology available at the time. Now, with telescopes like ALMA on board which has undergone several upgrades in order to ... an extremely accurate atomic clock that is critical to link ALMA to the entire VLBI network, along with new hard drives...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
... velocity structure has recently been suggested by other observations of the compound carbon monosulfide (CS), also taken with ALMA, thus adding weight to this suggestion. These findings hence point to these particular COM emission lines as tracing...
27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
... about an object. The Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) is a one example of many antennas working together ...the cosmos in finer detail than ever before. Unlike ALMA, GRAVITY uses visible light (not Millimetre/Submillimetre radiation...
25 September 2020
Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation
...Scorpius, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted a pair of massive stars growing in...and see what is going on. Using the resolving power of ALMA to study a massive young binary system known as IRAS 16547-...
