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ALMA Takes Close Look at Drama of Starbirth 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star. By looking at the glow coming from carbon ...
The Odd Couple 7 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has captured an intriguing star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. This sharp image reveals two distinctive glowing cl...
Starburst to Star Bust 24 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
New observations from the ALMA telescope in Chile have given astronomers the best view yet of how vigorous star formation can blast gas out of a galaxy and starve future generations of stars of the fu...
Snow in an Infant Planetary System 18 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
A snow line has been imaged in a far-off infant planetary system for the very first time. The snow line, located in the disc around the Sun-like star TW Hydrae, promises to tell us more about the form...
Ripped Apart by a Black Hole 17 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
New observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The cloud is now so stretched that i...
ALMA Prenatal Scan Reveals Embryonic Monster Star 10 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
New observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter array (ALMA) have given astronomers the best view yet of a monster star in the process of forming within a dark cloud. A stellar womb ...
Feeding Galaxy Caught in Distant Searchlight 4 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas. Gas is seen to fall inwards towards the galaxy, creating a flow that both fuels star formati...
World Premiere of IMAX® 3D Film Hidden Universe 1 Jul 2013 | 03:20 pm
The 3D production Hidden Universe has been released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe, with world premieres on 28 June 2013 at Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio, ...
Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star 25 Jun 2013 | 03:00 pm
A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets. A record-breaking ...
Dusty Surprise Around Giant Black Hole 20 Jun 2013 | 03:00 pm
ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole at the centre of an active galaxy. Rather than finding all of the glow...
