22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
... studied included a dusty red supergiant star nearing the end of its life and the colliding galaxies Arp 220, a massive region of star formation close to the centre of the Milky Way in the constellation Serpens. "The major...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
...two marked the discovery of the first OH Megamaser, Arp 220, the nearest ultra-luminous infrared galaxy, which has ... a few years later, complex organic molecules were discovered in Arp 220, the first Megamaser galaxy found by Arecibo in 1982. These...