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‘Hidden’ gas found in distant starburst galaxies

In some countries, more babies are born than in others. With galaxies, it’s the same: some galaxies have a much higher birth rate of new stars than others. Astronomers have studied six of those so-called starburst galaxies with the ALMA observatory. In five of them, they discovered large amounts...

Hot cluster wind robs galaxies of stellar building material

Suppose you carry a tray with a lot of Lego blocks. More than enough to build a large number of houses. You want to play with your friends, at the center of the city square. But it’s very, very windy there. By the time you reach the center of...

Distant Hot DOG galaxy is a cannibal, ALMA finds

Many people eat chicken, cow or pig. Cruel enough, if you think about it. But eating other people is much worse, of course. Eating your own kind is called cannibalism. Luckily, cannibals are very rare. Now, ALMA has found a cannibal in space: a distant galaxy that is devouring...

ALMA maps Europa’s temperature

A terrestrial volcano is hotter than its surroundings. The same is true for geysers like the ones in Yellowstone National Park in the United States, or in the El Tatio geyser field in northern Chile. The reason: the interior of the Earth is hotter than its surface, and volcanoes...

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