A Peek at the Birth of the Universe with New Radio Telescope

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is set to become the largest radio telescope on Earth. …

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…