Participating Community Centers Eligible for Telescope Prize April is Global Astronomy Month and Big Astronomy has big plans to round out the month. Throughout the month of April, communities across the world will host events screening the award-winning film “Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries.” Schools, libraries, museums, planetariums...
In December 2022, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) confirmed the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies ever observed. The faint radio light ALMA captured began its journey to us when the universe was less than 360 million years old. It’s a tremendously distant galaxy, but just how far away is it really? The answer is a bit complicated, and it depends on what you mean by distance.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP). This program, in its eighth year, brings amateur astronomers, planetarium personnel, and formal and informal astronomy educators to U.S.-funded astronomy observatories in Chile.
Scientists studying a nearby protostar have detected the presence of water in its circumstellar disk. The new observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) mark the first detection of water being inherited into a protoplanetary disk without significant changes to its composition. These results further suggest that the water in our Solar System formed billions of years before the Sun.