Tuesday, December 27, 2016

VLA, ALMA team up to give first look at birthplaces of most current stars


VLA, ALMA team up to give first look at birthplaces of most current stars

12/27/2016 11:46 AM EST

radio/optical combination images of distant galaxies

Astronomers have gotten their first look at the mechanisms in galaxies through which most of today's stars were born. To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look at distant galaxies seen as they were some 10 billion years ago.


Full story at https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/deep-galaxy-images

Source
National Radio Astronomy Observatory


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