An article published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” describes a research on a molecular cloud called IRAS 16061-5048C1. A team led by Francesco Fontani from INAF Arcetri Observatory, Italy, used the ALMA radio telescope to observe the fragmentation of clumps of materials distributed along a filamentary-like structure that could form the embryos of future stars and probably of solar systems.
An article published in “The Astrophyisical Journal” describes the discovery of the first gamma-ray binary found outside the Milky Way, called LMC P3. A team of researchers led by Robin Corbet at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center used the Fermi space telescope to discover this couple in the Large Magellanic Cloud formed by a giant blue star and a companion that might be a neutron star or a black hole that are interacting producing cyclic gamma-ray emission.
An article published in the journal “Science” describes a research about the structure around the young star Elias 2-27. A team led by astronomer Laura Perez of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the ALMA radio telescope to detect the spiral-shaped structure around the star, the first of its kind ever observed.
In a press conference, NASA announced that a team of astronomers led by Dr. William Sparks who observed Europa with the Hubble Space Telescope captured images of what might be plumes of water vapor and erupt from the surface of this planet moon Jupiter. They would be a confirmation of the existing subsurface activity with an ocean of liquid water, one of the best candidates to host life forms. The results of this research will be published in the “Astrophysical Journal”.
A series of articles to be published in “Astrophysical Journal” and “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” describe different parts of a research based on the observation of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) using the radio telescope ALMA. These observations show that the rate of star formation in young galaxies is closely related to their total mass in stars.
