06 April 2020
Planets can form second atmospheres rich in CO, new study shows
... could be narrowed down further using the high spatial resolution of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to help pinpoint the planet location. *A Hill sphere is the radius of a sphere within which smaller bodies would...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
.... “Ultimately, a solution could come from revisiting Venus for in situ measurements..,” they add. ESO astronomer and ALMA European Operations Manager Leonardo Testi, who did not participate in the new study, says: “The non...
28 October 2020
Unexpected molecule found in Titan's atmosphere
... Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Connor, who led the search using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile says when he realised he was looking at cyclopropenylidene, "my first thought was, ‘well, this is really unexpected...
04 July 2016
ROOM attends the UK National Astronomy Meeting
... time on various projects compared with the financial share it puts in and with renewed support for the ALMA regional centre, LOFAR and the Wide Field Units, along with the construction of MOONS (Multi-Object...
16 September 2020
Breakthrough Initiatives to fund a study into the possibility of aerial life in Venus' atmosphere
... (PH3) in the Venusian atmosphere via an analysis of millimeter-waveband observations by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, with additional evidence from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT in Hawai’i). The level of phosphine...
