26 July 2016
Will PIPER be successful in confirming Inflation Theory?
... other signals and past experiments have been limited in the angular scale in which they can observe. Interstellar dust is also a problem. Instruments need to be able to measure the dominant dust foreground signal with sensitivity better...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
..., while darker regions correspond to patches of the sky where fewer stars are observed and dense clouds of interstellar gas and dust absorb starlight along the line of sight. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds...
11 October 2016
GRB afterglow observed by ALMA for the first time
... afterglow on the other hand is thought to originate from external shocks caused by the jet’s interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM). To properly determine the physical properties of GRB emission, a wide range of accurate multi-wavelength...
27 October 2016
Rare newly forming triple star system observed by astronomers
... of the gaseous disk in which they form is considered a main driving force. Stars initially form from a cloud of interstellar gas that is collapsing under its own gravity and, in a process that can be compared to a figure skater doing...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
... will allow us to make detailed studies of water in a wide range of objects including forming and evolved stars, the interstellar medium and regions close to supermassive black holes.”
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
... formed dust directly, and ongoing studies will help us understand how it forms and how supernovas seed interstellar space with the raw material for new planetary systems." Aside from the dust, astronomers are...
