Tag: Virgo Cluster

NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 are two of the thousands of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, located roughly 65 million light-years from Earth

Celestial Mystery: What’s Robbing Galaxies Of Their Star-Forming Gas

MessageToEagle.com | November 2, 2021

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – ALMA’s new study confirms what’s robbing galaxies of their star-forming gas. Astronomers examining the nearby Universe with the help of the ALMA

The ALMA antennas, located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, are the most precise antennas ever built. They can capture radio waves that travel billions of light-years. Photo courtesy of ALMA.

Astronomy

ALMA Helps To Map Extreme Galaxy Environments And Star Formation In Virgo Cluster

MessageToEagle.com | September 24, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of 30 scientists—led by researchers at McMaster—is using ALMA, one of the world’s largest telescopes to investigate and map