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Space Company Taps Coast-to-Coast Radio Telescopes for Moon Mission

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) is supporting Intuitive Machines’ second lunar mission, IM-2, which landed on the surface of the Moon, Thursday, March 6th.Intuitive Machines has been working...
27-Mar-2025 8:35 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Astronomers Discover “Space Tornadoes” Around the Milky Way’s Core

Swirling through the Milky Way’s central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy, dust and gases constantly churn as energetic shock waves ripple throughout.
27-Mar-2025 8:35 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Hidden Cosmic Fuel Tank Found in Infant Galaxy Cluster

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), along with complementary data from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), have discovered a surprisingly large reservoir of molecular gas in a protocluster of galaxies...
27-Mar-2025 8:35 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Small Star, Mighty Flares: ALMA Shares New View of Proxima Centauri

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very active M dwarf star. Its flare activity has been well known to astronomers using visible wavelengths of light, but a new study...
27-Mar-2025 8:35 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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—revealing 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’s 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’s (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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