For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

ALMA Observatory One hundred million years or so after the Big Bang, the first stars ignited. Their appearance started the transition between two periods in the early universe: an era that ...

By analyzing the data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have investigated a star-forming region known as G34.26+0.15. As a result, they discovered an explosive ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

The NAOJ is involved in operating the ALMA Observatory in Chile, which plays a central role in the project. It had been considered impossible to capture an image of a black hole because its strong ...

DAY 5: THE ALMA OBSERVATORY, MOON AND DEATH VALLEYS, AND DESERT STARGAZING After breakfast, you will journey through the desert to the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), an ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) scientists of the Leiden Observatory (the Netherlands) looked at 73 protoplanetary disks in the Lupus region. They found that many ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our ...