Gas streams gush into the Milky Way 's center and pile up into thick clouds, but for some reason, those ingredients don't ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large ...

When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and submillimeter space observatory in the 1990s, they knew they couldn't just build it ...

A striking new image of our Milky Way's center, captured by the European Southern Observatory's ALMA, spans more than 650 ...

ALMA’s most ambitious galactic survey yet exposes a wild, filament-filled stellar nursery at the very heart of the Milky Way. Astronomers have produced a remarkable new view of the center of the Milky ...

Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in northern Chile awoke to a rare sight: fresh snow had fallen in the world’s driest nonpolar ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape blanketed in snow. Jared Verdi via Unsplash Nestled between the Andes Mountains ...

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