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Why Chile?

Why Chile is the ideal place for astronomy. Why the U.S. and the National Science Foundation invests so much money into science in a country outside our own.

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Astronomers Discover a Superheated Star Factory in the Early Universe

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy using the ALMA telescope. The galaxy is glowing intensely in superheated cosmic dust while forming stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way.