Throughout October, Chile’s Science Month, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will open its doors to the community with two special public visits to its Operations Support Facility (OSF), near San Pedro de Atacama. The celebration also coincides with a special milestone: 15 years since ALMA’s first scientific observations, which marked the beginning of a...
On October 18, 1977, Charles Kowal discovered Chiron using the 1.2-meter Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory. The object revealed an entirely new class of celestial bodies orbiting beyond the Main Asteroid Belt.
Astronomers have launched a citizen science initiative to uncover hidden black holes in the Milky Way. Volunteers will comb through vast NASA telescope archives to identify key gravitational signatures.
Astronomers using China's FAST radio telescope have discovered a compact hydrogen cloud devoid of visible stars. Containing nearly 500,000 solar masses of neutral hydrogen, it represents one of the strongest candidates yet for an isolated dark galaxy.
An international team led by the University of Duisburg-Essen has developed a high-resolution 3D model demonstrating how uneven stellar nurseries cast shadows that alter local chemistry and impact infrared signals detected by Webb.
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