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Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is an international partnership of @ESO, @TheNRAO and @prcnaoj_en in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.

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ALMA Observatory📡 @almaobs Nov 2

📡ALMA and VLA📡 @TheNRAO, Reveal Signs of a Companion Stirring Betelgeuse’s Atmosphere.
The companion star is known as Siwarha.
⭐️almaobservatory.org/en/press-relea…
📷: Artist’s impression of Siwarha moving through Betelgeuse’s outer atmosphere and leaving a wake.

Artist’s impression of Siwarha moving through Betelgeuse’s outer atmosphere and leaving a wake. This illustration depicts the proposed interaction; it is not a telescope image of the companion. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M. Weiss

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🦙The neighbor sharing some juicy gossip with us 👀.

Have you ever heard the sound a vicuña makes?
📹: N. Lira

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🌀This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant confirmed galaxy.
✨Supernova explosions in this galaxy would have spread heavy elements forged inside stars, like oxygen, which has been now detected with the ALMA.
📷: 2025, @ESO /M. Kornmesser

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📡We are on @TechExplorist "ALMA Reveals Hidden Planet-Forming Structures in the Smallest Disks"

techexplorist.com/tiny-planet-fo…

www.techexplorist.com Tiny planet-forming disks reveal a big surprise about how planets are born Hidden gaps in tiny disks could point to planets still forming.

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📡We are on @SPACEdotcom "Betelgeuse is haunted by a cosmic poltergeist tormenting the doomed star's atmosphere"
space.com/astronomy/star…

www.space.com Betelgeuse is haunted by a cosmic poltergeist tormenting the doomed star's atmosphere "This companion is orbiting so close to the star that it actually passes through its extended atmosphere."