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Revolutionäre ALMA-Aufnahme enthüllt die Entstehung von Planeten

By Guest PostNovember 8, 2014Sciencealternative fuels, atacama large millimeter, drug carrying nanoparticles, freizeit jugendlicher, gas, humpback microbiome, marc de batist, nmp, organ transplantation, submillimeter array, whale skin

Diese neue Aufnahme von ALMA, dem Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, zeigt außerordentlich feine Details, die nie zuvor in der protoplanetare Scheibe um einen jungen Stern beobachtet wurden. Dies sind die ersten Beobachtungen, bei denen die beinahe-Endkonfiguration von ALMA zum Einsatz kam; es sind die schärfsten Aufnahmen, die jemals im Submillimeterbereich gemacht wurden. Die neuen Ergebnisse sind ein großer Schritt nach vorne in der Beobachtung der Entwicklung protoplanetarer Scheiben und der Entstehung von Planeten. (more…)

Spitzer and ALMA Reveal a Star’s Bubbly Birth

By Guest PostNovember 11, 2013Sciencealberto noriega crespo, alma, atacama large millimeter, bouncing baby, bubbly birth, Chile, hector arce, herbig haro, hh objects, NASA, spitzer, spitzer space telescope, star, star making, submillimeter array, yale university

It’s a bouncing baby . . . star! Combined observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly completed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed the throes of stellar birth as never before in the well-studied object known as HH 46/47.

Herbig-Haro (HH) objects form when jets shot out by newborn stars collide with surrounding material, producing small, bright, nebulous regions. To our eyes, the dynamics within many HH objects are obscured by enveloping gas and dust. But the infrared and submillimeter wavelengths of light seen by Spitzer and ALMA, respectively, pierce the dark cosmic cloud around HH 46/47 to let us in on the action. (more…)

Ghostly Specter Haunts the ‘Coldest Place in the Universe’

By Guest PostOctober 26, 2013Sciencealma, alma data, atacama large millimeter, big bang, boomerang nebula, coldest place, constellation centaurus, dwarf stars, ghost like appearance, ghostly specter haunts, lars ake nyman, NASA, patrick huggins, planetary nebula, raghvendra sahai, submillimeter array, telescope in chile, ultra cold object, universe, visible wavelengths, wouter vlemmings

At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang nebula is the coldest known object in the universe — colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, the explosive event that created the cosmos.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile have taken a new look at this object to learn more about its frigid properties and to determine its true shape, which has an eerily ghost-like appearance. (more…)

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Revolutionäre ALMA-Aufnahme enthüllt die Entstehung von Planeten

Spitzer and ALMA Reveal a Star’s Bubbly Birth

Ghostly Specter Haunts the ‘Coldest Place in the Universe’