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ALMA finds newborn stars close to Milky Way’s black hole

If you want to build a house of cards, you’d better not try it outside during a hurricane. Likewise, you would expect that it is hard for new stars to form in a violent environment. Still, ALMA has found eleven small baby stars extremely close to the huge black...

Cosmic traffic accident in the early universe

Every now and then, galaxies in the universe crash into each other. Some of those cosmic traffic accidents have been studied in much detail by telescopes on the ground and in space. Most of them are tens or hundreds of millions of light-years away. Now, ALMA has seen a...

Molecular variety in distant dust clouds stuns astronomers

Suppose there are eight trees in the street you live in. They’re all the same kind of tree, and they’re also the same size. Surely you would expect them to host the same types of insects, right? But what if some of the trees carry just a small number...

Nearest exoplanet may be part of larger system

Our planet Earth orbits the Sun. And it’s not alone. Our solar system contains eight planets, many dozens of moons, and countless asteroids, icy ‘dwarf planets’ and comets. Other stars also have planets. Astronomers have already discovered thousands of them. Even the nearest star has its own planet. New...

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