The clearest image yet of planets forming around a star has been unveiled by astronomers working on the ALMA array of radio telescopes in Chile. The image shows a series of concentric rings of ...

This image can easily be mistaken for a planetary nebula, but it is actually an image of a young star in the midst of formation. L1527 is an embedded protostar within a dark cloud in the Taurus star ...

Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a team of researchers has been conducting a survey on protoplanetary disks — the belts of dust that eventually form ...

Researchers have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron microscope to make three-dimensional images of ...

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