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  • December 23, 2021

Billions of Starless Planets Haunt Dark Cloud Cradles

Artist’s impression of a Free Floating Planet lost in deep space
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  • December 14, 2021

Stellar “Ashfall” Could Help Distant Planets Grow

Figure: Artist’s impression of the “Ashfall” in a protoplanetary disk.
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  • December 10, 2021

Fiery Dragon’s Breath May Scorch Young Planets

Dragon’s Breath: Artist’s impression of a supermassive filament released by a superflare on EK Draconis approaching young planets.
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  • December 2, 2021

Stellar Cocoon with Organic Molecules at the Edge of our Galaxy

Artist’s conceptual image of the protostar discovered in the extreme outer Galaxy.
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  • November 13, 2021

Simulations Provide Clue to Missing Planets Mystery

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  • October 7, 2021

First ALMA Animation of Circling Twin Young Stars

Artist’s impression of the young binary system XZ Tau
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  • September 23, 2021

Unveiling Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn That Were Hiding Behind the Dust

figure: Distant galaxies imaged with ALMA, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope.
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  • September 16, 2021

Untangling the Formation of Planetary Systems with Deuterium

ALMA images of the protoplanetary disks around young stars AS 209 and HD 163296
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  • September 10, 2021

Largest Virtual Universe Free for Anyone to Explore

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  • July 8, 2021

New Radio Receiver Opens Wider Window to Radio Universe

Distribution of CO isotopologues in the Orion molecular cloud observed simultaneously with the newly developed broadband receiver
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  • July 7, 2021

Small Amount of Lithium Production in Classical Nova

A classical nova explosion occurs in a close binary system consisting of a white dwarf  and companion star
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  • July 2, 2021

Observation, Simulation, and AI Join Forces to Reveal a Clear Universe

Artist’s visualization of this research.
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  • June 29, 2021

A New Type of Supernova Illuminates an Old One

Las Cumbres Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope color composite of the electron-capture supernova 2018zd and the host starburst galaxy NGC 2146.
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  • June 11, 2021

ALMA Discovers Earliest Gigantic Black Hole Storm

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  • May 21, 2021

ALMA Discovers the Most Ancient Galaxy with Spiral Morphology

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  • May 14, 2021

Charting the Expansion History of the Universe with Supernovae

Schematical representation of the expansion of the Universe over the course of its history
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  • May 10, 2021

Star Formation Triggered by Cloud–Cloud Collisions

figure: Examples of typical colliding molecular clouds (represented by the blue color and yellow contours) forming star clusters discovered by radio observations.
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  • May 6, 2021

A New Window to See Hidden Side of Magnetized Universe

The bent jet structures emitted from MRC 0600-399 as observed by the MeerKAT radio telescope are well reproduced by the simulation conducted on ATERUI II.
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