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Chile’s ALMA Observatory Captures Unforgettable Photo of Snake-Like Galaxy NGC 1087

The Universe is unimaginably huge and diverse, but even so, you don’t hear every day about galaxies resembling snakes. It’s the case of NGC 1087, a beautiful galaxy located many solar systems away from us that amazed astronomers in charge…

June 13, 2022 ·by Cristian Antonescu· 0

Huge External Phenomenons are Killing Galaxies

A galaxy is such an imposing cosmic structure compared to a planet or a solar system. It’s an entire array of billions of stars, and there could be even more planets there. For instance, if we look at our own…

November 4, 2021 ·by Cristian Antonescu· 0

NASA Solves Mystery of Dead Galaxies From the Early Universe

The Universe was not always as we know it today. It was once very empty, with just a few galaxies illuminating it. During the early stages of the Universe’s existence, some of the emerging galaxies suddenly stopped making stars, and…

September 24, 2021 ·by Cristian Antonescu· 0

Moon-Developing Circle Around a Remote Planet Revealed by ALMA

Astronomers have made some new observations using Earth’s most powerful set of radio telescopes of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust, similar to the one that is thought to have created the moons of Jupiter. Rice University astronomer Andrea…

July 15, 2019 ·by Diana Vizireanu· 0

Galaxy Megamergers Of The Young Universe Were Discovered With ALMA And APEX Telescopes

Recent observations show that galactic merging processes were already happening at 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, twice as fast as expected. This is an amazing discovery that astrophysics doesn’t yet know how to explain. Thanks to the ALMA…

April 26, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0