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Soap bubbles and jellyfish galaxies

You probably know how to make soap bubbles. First, you put a ring of plastic or metal into a soapbath, and gently pull it out again. The ring is now filled with a thin film of soap. If you hold the ringstill, nothing will happen. But if you start...

What goes on beneath Jupiter’s clouds?

Do you like watching the clouds? It’s a pleasing pastime. If you have enough imagination, the cloudabove your head sometimes resemble faces or animals. Here on Earth, we always look at the clouds from below. But on other planets, we can only seeclouds from above. Even with a large...

ALMA puts a black hole on the scale

How do you weigh a black hole? For a person, it’s easy. You just step upon a scale and read off your weight. But no scale is largeenough to carry a black hole! Even if it were, it would be gobbled up by the black hole’s incrediblegravitational pull in...

ALMA finds large numbers of massive galaxies in the early universe

Imagine that you’re on an open field in the middle of the night. In the distance is the edge of a darkforest. Using your binoculars, you see dozens of fireflies buzzing around between the trees. Great,that tells you what kind of animals live out there, right? But then you...

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