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Unusual stellar nurseries near our galaxy’s center puzzle scientists
Unusual stellar nurseries near our galaxy’s center puzzle scientists
June 13, 2025 at 11:00 am | News Release

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in the galactic center of the Milky Way.

ALMA Reveals Lives of Planet-Forming Disks
ALMA Reveals Lives of Planet-Forming Disks
June 13, 2025 at 9:00 am | News Release

An international team of astronomers has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young…

From Stardust to Stone: Windswept Grains Hold Clues to Planet’s Beginnings
From Stardust to Stone: Windswept Grains Hold Clues to Planet’s Beginnings
June 12, 2025 at 9:00 am | News Release

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered a key piece of the puzzle in how rocky planets, such…

NASA’s Chandra and the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array See Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
NASA’s Chandra and the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array See Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
June 11, 2025 at 11:00 am | News Release

Astronomers used Chandra and the U.S. National Science Foundation Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (NSF VLA) to study this black hole and its jet at a period they call “cosmic noon,” which occurred about three billion years after the universe began.

Texas Tech University System and NSF NRAO Forge Cosmic Alliance in West Texas
Texas Tech University System and NSF NRAO Forge Cosmic Alliance in West Texas
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 am | News Release

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and the Texas Tech University System (TTU System)…

Cosmic Chemistry Breakthrough: Largest Aromatic Molecule Found in Deep Space
Cosmic Chemistry Breakthrough: Largest Aromatic Molecule Found in Deep Space
June 9, 2025 at 6:15 pm | News Release

A team of chemists and astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of…

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