ALMA Astronomy News

Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so near that one engulfs the other - with far-reaching consequences. A team of astronomers that used ALMA to study 15 unusual stars was surprised to find that they all recently underwent this phase. The discovery promises new insight into the sky's most dramatic phenomena – and life, death, and rebirth among the stars.

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Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so near that one engulfs the other - with far-reaching consequences. A team of astronomers that used ALMA to study 15 unusual stars was surprised to find that they all recently underwent this phase. The discovery promises new insight into the sky's most dramatic phenomena – and life, death, and rebirth among the stars.

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) -the largest astronomical project in existence- is a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed of 66 high precision antennas located in northern Chile. ALMA is an international partnership of ESO (Europe), NSF (U.S) and NINS (Japan) together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile We love the Cosmos!