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A New Era of Data Compatibility in Astronomy

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic鈥攔evealing the mysteries of the Universe. The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) has been...
5-Feb-2025 7:20 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Double the Disks, Double the Discovery: New Insights into Planet Formation in DF Tau

Tucked away in a star forming region in the Taurus constellation, a pair of circling stars are displaying some unexpected differences in the circumstellar disks of dust and gas that surround them.
13-Jan-2025 7:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Young Stars in the Milky Way鈥檚 Backyard Challenge Our Understanding of How They Form

Astronomers have made groundbreaking discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), along with observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The...
13-Jan-2025 7:35 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Helical Magnetic Fields: A Universal Mechanism for Jet Collimation?

New observations from the National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory鈥檚 (NSF NRAO) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (NSF VLA) provide compelling evidence supporting a universal mechanism for the collimation of astrophysical...
13-Jan-2025 9:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Astronomers Detect Earliest and Most Distant Blazar in the Universe

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed the presence of a blazar鈥攁 supermassive black hole with a jet pointed directly at Earth鈥攁t an extraordinary redshift of 7.0. The object, designated VLASS J041009.05鈭�013919.88 (J0410鈭�0139), is the most...
10-Jan-2025 9:55 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Black Hole Explorer Hopes to Reveal New Details of Supermassive Black Holes

A new agreement between the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) will help the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) take its next steps 鈥� into...
10-Dec-2024 1:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Astronomers Discover Magnetic Loops Around Supermassive Black Hole

NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status as a popular target for astronomers, however, its accretion disk is obscured by thick clouds of dust and gas. A few...
10-Dec-2024 1:50 PM EST Add to Favorites

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ALMA Reveals Planets Can Form Under Harsh Radiation

New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) suggest that planet formation can occur even in harsh stellar environments previously thought to be inhospitable.An international team of astronomers used ALMA to capture...
18-Nov-2024 1:25 PM EST Add to Favorites


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