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,...
On behalf of AUI and the Board of Trustees Associated Universities, Incorporated regrets to inform the community that Fred Lo (Kwok-Yung), Distinguished Astronomer and Director Emeritus of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, passed away last week after a brief illness. AUI recruited Dr. Lo as Director of NRAO in 2002, and he...