Using the Chile-based ALMA telescope, the researchers examined the dynamics and chemistry of a central region.

Scientists have captured the most detailed image yet of the vast Milky Way galaxy using Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (Alma) radio telescope.

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 ...

T o paraphrase Archimedes, if we had a selfie stick long enough—and the means to operate it—we could take a picture of the ...

New telescope picture has revealed in unprecedented detail the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our ...

Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have created a detailed map of the cold cosmic gas in the Milky Way's core. This revealing map shows how gas forms stars and highlights activity around the ...

For ancient Arab travelers, the sky was a faithful guide, and a glowing river of stars stretching across the night, inspired ...

What: Researchers report the possible discovery of a millisecond pulsar near the Galactic Center using data from the ...

An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image yet of the Milky Way's turbulent center. The area captured by the image, produced with the Atacama Large ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Far beyond the Milky Way, in a nearby satellite galaxy, a giant star has been shifting in a way astronomers did not expect.

Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe’s biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel to a powerful supernova explosion that sees this ...