A team of nine outreach and education professionals – eight from the United States and one from Chile – will undertake a 10-day expedition to key astronomy research sites in Chile as part of the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP). The program, now in its third year, is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)....
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Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images. A pair of adolescent protostars had a perilously close encounter that blasted their stellar nursery apart. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have examined the widely scattered debris from this explosive event,...