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Researchers using ALMA observe two dwarf planets with gas disk around them

The circumplanetary disk can form moons and are made of gas, dust and asteroid fragments.

Surprise discovery: First glimpse of cold gas disc around black hole in our galaxy's core

The findings help explain why the first photo of a black hole captures the far away M87 & not Sag A* in our galaxy core.

Scientists detect first radioactive molecule in space from 17th century explosion

Their findings could open doors for many more from studies of stellar remnants as well as the radioactive isotope, 26AlF, in the galaxy.

Astronomers spot rare pair of hyperluminous starburst galaxies in the process of merging into a massive elliptical galaxy

The ADFS-27 system has approximately 50 times the amount of star-forming gas as the Milky Way, said the study published in the Astrophysical Journal.

Researchers find evidence that massive stars give birth to new stars after their deaths

Researchers have found evidence that death of massive stars, those more than 10 times the mass of our Sun, may lead to the birth a new generation.

NASA finds life enabling organic compound in large nursery of newborn stars

The results, to be published in the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, showed that methyl isocyanate gas surrounds the young stars.

MIT researchers have created a radio telescope the size of the Earth

The data gathered from radio telescopes around the world are so massive, that it is actually cheaper to fly the data to a central location for processing.

Mysterious infrared light from space detected by ALMA

Astronomers have detected the faintest millimetre-wave source ever observed using ALMA, the world's largest ground-based facility for observations in the millimetre/submillimetre regime in Chile.