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Water Detection Around Star Supports Idea That Earth's Water Is Older Than Sun
Gaseous water has been detected in the planet-forming disk surrounding the star V883 Orionis (ALMA) using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The discovery "supports the idea that water ...
CompositesWorld12h
Design for manufacturing, assembly and automation enables complex CFRP telescope supports
Airborne delivered two mirror support structures for the FYST and SOLAT telescopes, assembling assembling 26,300 components.
National Geographic news10y
COSMIC DAWN
By the time it was officially inaugurated in March 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array —ALMA— had already begun to deliver on expectations. The year before, with only 16 ...
Forbes2y
Spectacular New Images Reveal Violence Inside The ‘Tarantula Nebula’ As The Most Massive Stars We've Ever Found Are Born
The bright red-yellow streaks that have been superimposed on the image come from radio observations taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), revealing regions of cold ...
Phys.org17d
ALMA observes dusty site of planet formation
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a high concentration of dust grains, a planet-forming material ...
Smithsonian Magazine3y
Behold: The World's Largest Radio Telescope
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, located in the Atacama Desert, is the product of a 20-year global effort by Europe, North America, and East Asia. With its 66 antennas sitting 16,400 feet above ...
Business Insider7y
Astronomers see ‘hole’ on the sun that could swallow 2 Earths
Images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal amazing details of the sun, including a giant sunspot that is almost twice as large as the diameter of Earth. Video ...
Phys.org13d
ALMA observations investigate disk and jet of a massive protostar
Astronomers from Italy and Spain have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a massive protostar designated IRAS 20126+4104. The observational campaign ...
JSTOR4y
ALMA Long Baseline Campaigns: Phase Characteristics of Atmosphere at Long Baselines in the Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths
We present millimeter- and submillimeter-wave phase characteristics measured between 2012 and 2014 of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array long baseline campaigns. This paper presents the ...
Science Daily25d
Astronomers witness the in situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies
The discovery of the birth sites of giant, elliptical galaxies -- announced in a paper published today in Nature -- come from analyzing data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
CU Boulder News & Events6y
Jennie Paine
I track the motions of these stars in orbit about the GC using observations from the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).