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  • June 3, 2025

Cosmic Himalayas Quasar Cluster Defies Explanation

Cosmic Himalayas Quasar Cluster
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  • May 22, 2025

ALMA Measures Evolution of Monster Barred Spiral Galaxy

Left: The galaxy J0107a observed in infrared light with the James Webb Space Telescope. Right: The gas distribution in J0107a observed with ALMA.
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  • February 6, 2025

Dusting for Stars’ Magnetic Fingerprints

ALMA observations of the protoplanetary disk around HD 142527.
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  • January 15, 2025

Super-Earth vs. Sub-Neptune? The Winner is Super-Venus!

Artist’s impression of GJ 1214 b passing in front of its host star.
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  • December 13, 2024

Planets Form Through Domino Effect

Compared to the previous observations (left), the new ALMA observations (right) at longer wavelengths can better see into the dust ring and reveal a concentration of dust to the north-west (upper right) where a new planet is forming.
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  • October 25, 2024

Re-analysis of Data from Milky Way Central Supermassive Black Hole Observations

Image: Radio image of Sagittarius A* in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, obtained from this re-analysis.
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  • September 5, 2024

Outer Solar System More Populated than We Thought

The Subaru Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft
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  • August 30, 2024

Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn

Artist’s impression of the interacting galaxies observed in this research
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  • May 31, 2024

Simulations Yield New Intermediate Mass Black Holes Recipe

Simulation of globular cluster formation.
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  • May 24, 2024

Earth Twin or Evil Twin

Artist’s conception of the newly discovered planet Gliese 12 b
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  • May 10, 2024

ONe Nova to Rule Them All

An artist's impression of this research.
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  • April 11, 2024

Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, ‘Sneezes’ Tell us How You Are

Artist’s conception of a ‘sneeze’ of magnetic field lines, dust, and gas ejected from a baby star
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  • April 8, 2024

Inexplicable Flying Fox found in Hydra Galaxy Cluster

GMRT radio image of the central region of the Hydra Cluster.
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  • March 28, 2024

ALMA Finds New Molecular Signposts in Starburst Galaxy

Excerpts from the ALCHEMI atlas of the center of NGC 253
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  • March 22, 2024

Simulations of Europa Craters Suggest Thick Ice Crust

Artist’s conception of a basin forming impact occurring on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
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  • February 1, 2024

Ancient Gas Outflow Suppressed Star Formation

Artist’s impression of outflowing molecular gas in the galaxy hosting quasar J2054-0005.
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  • January 18, 2024

M87* One Year Later: Proof of a persistent black hole shadow

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of M87* from observations taken in April 2018, one year after the first observations in April 2017.
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  • December 15, 2023

New Red Galaxies Turn Out to be Already Known Blue Galaxies

A blue-excess dust obscured galaxy (BluDOG) imaged by the Subaru Telescope.
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