Radio/Optical composite image of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4217. Magnetic field lines (green), revealed by the VLA, extend far above and below the plane…
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Artist impression of the atmosphere of Antares. As seen with the naked eye (up until the photosphere), Antares is around 700 times larger than our…
Image of star cluster G286.21+0.17, caught in the act of formation. This is a multiwavelength mosaic of more than 750 ALMA radio images, and 9…
Artist’s conception illustrating a disk of water-bearing gas orbiting the supermassive black hole at the core of a distant galaxy. By observing maser emission from…
When a pair of young protostars called IRAS 4A was observed at millimeter wavelengths, left, the “hot corino” of complex organic molecules surrounding one of…
Artist’s conception illustrates the differences in phenomena resulting from an “ordinary” core-collapse supernova explosion, an explosion creating a gamma-ray burst, and one creating a Fast…
(Click image for full view.) Artist impression of the Wolfe Disk, a massive rotating disk galaxy in the early, dusty universe. The galaxy was initially…
Artist impression of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as it travels through our solar system. This mysterious visitor from the depths of space is the first…
Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf and its magnetic field. The magnetic field, rooted deep in its interior, rotates at a different rate than the…
Artist impression of a double sunset on a ‘Tatooine’ exoplanet forming in a circumbinary disk that is misaligned with the orbits of its binary stars.…
Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC 6240. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. An…
Artist’s conception of a dwarf galaxy, its shape distorted, most likely by a past interaction with another galaxy, and a massive black hole in its…
Radio image of Jupiter made with ALMA. Bright bands indicate high temperatures and dark bands low temperatures. The dark bands correspond to the zones on…
Composite view of an observation showing thousands of galaxies in radio light and the MeerKAT radio telescope array in the South African Karoo semidesert. The…
Artist impression of what MAMBO-9 would look like in visible light. The galaxy is very dusty and it has yet to build most of its…
[embedded content] What happens when a black hole has a star for dinner? In this new video, Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory…
Composite image of the galaxy NGC 4631, the “Whale Galaxy,” revealing large magnetic structures. Credit: Composite image by Jayanne English of the University of Manitoba,…
ALMA Sheds Light on the Mystery of Missing Massive Galaxies – A visualization of cold carbon monoxide gas in the Sculptor Galaxy. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF From…
Artist’s impression of gas flowing like a waterfall into a protoplanetary disk gap, which is most likely caused by an infant planet. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S.…
Artist impression of the heart of galaxy NGC 1068, which harbors an actively feeding supermassive black hole, hidden within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust…