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Applications Accepted for 2018 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program
Applications are now being accepted for the 2018 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP). This program, in its fourth year, brings amateur astronomers, planetarium personnel, and astronomy educators to several U.S.-funded astronomy observatories in Chile. While there, ambassadors will receive behind-the-scenes tours of some of the...
ALMA Discovers Infant Stars Surprisingly Near Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
Duo of Titanic Galaxies Captured in Extreme Starbursting Merger
New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have uncovered the never-before-seen close encounter between two astoundingly bright and spectacularly massive galaxies in the early universe. These so-called hyper-luminous starburst galaxies are exceedingly rare at this epoch of cosmic history — near the time when...