The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is set to become the largest radio telescope on Earth. …
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Astronomy
Production Sites of Stars Are Rare
Astronomers using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) 45-meter telescope found that high-density gas, the material for…
Hubble Spots a Stunning Spiral Galaxy
Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. One of the key galaxy types we see in…
Astronomers Map Vast Void In Our Cosmic Neighborhood
An astronomer from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and an international team published a…
The Early Days of the Milky Way Revealed
The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. …
Interstellar Iron Isn’t Missing, It’s Just Hiding In Plain Sight
Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the…
Two Supermassive Black Holes Are On A Collision Course
Each black hole’s mass is more than 800 million times that of our sun. As the…
Black Hole Brings Down Curtain On Jellyfish Galaxy’s Star Turn
The supermassive black hole at the centre of jellyfish galaxy JO201 is stripping away gas and…
ALMA Finds The Earliest Example Of Merging Galaxies
Researchers using the radio telescope ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and…
3 Sky Surveys Completed in Preparation for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
It took three sky surveys — conducted at telescopes in two continents, covering one-third of the…