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This is the image obtained by EHT of M87! You are looking at the first direct image of a black hole!
#EHTBlackHole
#RealBlackHole
🌀
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#Breakingnews
For the first time
#OurBlackHole
SgrA* 🌀 in the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way!
@ehtelescope
collaboration📡
#SgrABlackHole
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Andromeda, I observed you from Earth 2.5 million light years in the Milky Way. Someday we'll be Together? 👀
📷: From ALMA, by our photo- ambassador, Pablo Carrillo.
#Space
#tuesdaymotivations
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👋🏻Hi
@ESO
did you see this? Our photo-ambassador Pablo Carrillo took this amazing images of
#LunarEclipse
above VLT!
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🧵[3/8] Astronomers had already observed stars orbiting around the compact, massive, ‘invisible’ SgrA*🌀, and suspected it to be a black hole. The EHT has zoomed-in to provide the first direct visual proof
#OurBlackHole
#SgrABlackHole
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🔵Neptune, the eighth planet of our Solar System, with several eyes.
Voyager 2 🤝ALMA 🤝
@HUBBLE_space
@NASAHubble
🤝
@ESA_Webb
@NASAWebb
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Science assemble!😎
Galaxy M74, 32 million light-years from Earth.
Viewed by ALMA📡,
@NASAWebb
@ESA_Webb
and
@NASAHubble
@HUBBLE_space
🛰️
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#BreakingNews
No more doubts! We detected for the first time a moon-forming disk around a planet, similar to Jupiter and outside the Solar System.
⭐️Star: PDS 70
🪐Planet: PDS 70c (400 light years away)
⬇️
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📡✨ALMA Scientists find pair of Black Holes dining together in nearby galaxy merger known as UGC 4211, discovered two black holes growing side by side, just 750 light-years apart.
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🌐📡An international collaboration of over 300 researchers from 80 institutes around the world took 5 years of intense work to combine all the SgrA*🌀 data, analyse it and compare is to simulations
@ehtelescope
🌐📡
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🧵[2/8] We can’t see the
#SgrABlackHole
🌀 itself, instead we see a bright ring of light around a dark central shadow.
#OurBlackHole
is 27,000 light years away from Earth, so in the sky it is about the same size as a donut on the Moon would be.
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✨"Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies With
@NASAWebb
.This image of spiral galaxy NGC 3351 combines observations from several observatories to reveal details about its stars and gas. ALMA,
@ESO
VLT (MUSE) and
@NASAHubble
" By
@NASA
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Total Solar Eclipse in Antarctica ☀️🌓🌎
📷: From the Union Glacier Joint Scientific Polar Station. By
@FTruebaG
/
@MarcaChile
and
@ReneQuinan
/
@inach_gob
📷: From an airplane. “Eflight 2021-Sunrise” Mission by astronomy student
@vanebulossa
/
@uchile
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#BreakingNews
! 📡ALMA observed an unstoppable monster in the early
#Universe
. Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. 🌀
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#OurBlackhole
SgrA* at the center of the Milky Way was sonified. It is a radar-like scan, starting from 12 o'clock and moving clockwise.
#SgrABlackHole
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📡 Strong magnetic fields at the edge of the
#MilkyWay
's central black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) the
@ehtelescope
collaboration
🔗
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🙌🏻3 years after the first image of a
#blackhole
M87. (2019)
🙌🏻1 year of Its magnetic fields vizualization. (2021)
What will come next?😏
United to 9 other Radio Telescopes we form the
@ehtelescope
, a telescope the size of the Earth!🌐
#mondaythoughts
#space
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#BreakingNews
📡 Furthest ever detection of a galaxy’s magnetic field. Using ALMA, astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us.
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What a great day. Astronomy is on the front page of all media around the world!
#EHTBlackHole
#RealBlackHole
#BlackHole
🌀
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🌀
#BlackHoleWeek
Collaboration is important.
The supermassive
#blackhole
M87*
#EHT
🌐📡 with and without ALMA / APEX
@ESO
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#CarlSaganDay
✨ 'Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known' Carl Sagan.
(November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996)
📹
@YBeletsky
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📡🍩🌀
#M87
*, which lies 55 million light-years away, is one of the largest
#blackholes
known. While Sgr A*, 27 000 light-years away, has a mass roughly four million times the Sun’s mass, M87* is more than 1000 times more massive.
@ehtelescope
@xkcd
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A heart💛 or a pretzel🥨? We obtained a high resolution image of two baby stars growing in a gas and dust cloud. This helps astronomers to study the conditions in which binary stars are born.
📡
#FridayMotivation
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🧵[7/8] An international collaboration of over 300 researchers from 80 institutes around the world took 5 years of intense work to combine all the SgrA*🌀 data, analyse it and compare is to simulations
#OurBlackHole
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"Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?"🎶
#BohemianRhapsody
,
@QueenWillRock
@DrBrianMay
.
From left to right: Venus and the Moon. Above: Jupiter. Incredible image by our photographic ambassador
@_ansack
#YourALMAPicture
📡
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Astronomy Day in Chile.
📱 Take astrophotos with your cell phone. 🌌
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📡
#BreakingNews
A bubble of hot gas circles the Black Hole in the center of our galaxy at 30% the speed of light!
📹: animation
@ehtelescope
,
@ESO
/L. Calçada (Acknowledgment: M. Wielgus)
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#BlackHole
Astronomers had already observed stars orbiting around the compact, massive, ‘invisible’ SgrA*🌀, and suspected it to be a black hole. The
@ehtelescope
has zoomed-in to provide the first direct visual proof.
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📡
#BreakingNews
We detected moons forming outside our solar system, 370 light-years from Earth!✨Astronomers combined images from the
@ESO
VLT with ours.
#InSearchOfOurCosmicOrigins
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❤ Like if you prefer supernovas.
🔁 RT if you prefer protoplanetary disks.
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📡Against all odds, high winds, snow, cloudy skies and 83% partial coverage! One of our antennas was able to capture this amazing image of the
#2019SolarEclipse
. ☀️🌗🌎
#EclipseSolar2019
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No filter!
The "Altiplanic winter" being itself in the Chajnantor plateau, Chile.🌨️
📷: C. Follert.
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#BreakingNews
"L I F E" in Venus?
Together with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
@eao_jcmt
we detected phosphine molecules in the high clouds of Venus.
#VenusNews
👇
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#BreakingNews
! Powerful Flare from Star
#ProximaCentauri
Detected with ALMA📡Puts habitability of exoplanet
#proximab
into question.
At its peak, the newly recognized flare was 10 times brighter than our sun’s largest flares. (Pic: Artist impression)
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🧵[8/8] ALMA’s📡 contribution is crucial to the
@ehtelescope
network, it is the world’s largest millimeter wave observatory and sits in a key location in the centre of the global network with generally excellent weather
#OurBlackHole
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🌀
#BlackHoleWeek
Zooming in to the Heart of Messier 87. A massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. M87*: This
#blackhole
resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5-billion times that of the Sun.
@ehtelescope
🌐📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡
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🎄📡A Christmas tree at 5,000 m above sea level. We are waiting for Santa’s visit!🎅🏻
#MerryChristmas
Photo by Pablo Carrillo
#YourALMAPicture
#ChristmasEve
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Saying goodbye to February with the conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter from ALMA, Atacama Desert, Chile.
📷: Carlos González.
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🌌This is the Milky Way seen from ALMA. Our Photo-ambassador María Jesús López , captured this image.
We congratulate María Jesús for winning the ALMA "Curiosity award" 2023.
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#DontLookUp
!
Ok, yes 😁
☄️Comet Leonard
📷 From ALMA, Chile, incredible image by our photo-ambassador Pablo Carrillo.
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Wow! 😱
@ESO
obtained this detailed image of AB Aurigae where we can see the formation of at least one planet. The image on the right is our observation of the same system in 2017 and at that time the alternative was the presence of at least two planets.
#MondayMotivation
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🧵[5/8] Why did we see M87* first, not
#OurBlackHole
? SgrA* is much smaller than M87*. The brightness and pattern of the gas around SgrA* was changing rapidly as the EHT was observing it a bit like trying to take a clear picture of a puppy quickly chasing its tail.
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3 astronomic things to do with kids at home!
📡1. Build a paper antenna and transporter
📹2. Animated astronomy chapters
#WAWUA
🙋🏻♀️3. The adventures of TALMA in ALMA
#StayAtHome
#WednesdayWisdom
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📡This weekend, nature displayed its might with fierce winds and a stunning snowfall. For safety, we closed access to the antennas and interrupted our observations. A minor setback that gave us these amazing views that we just had to share.
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#BreakingNews
📡📡 We have detected clear signs of planet formation! In the gas and dust disk that surrounds MWC 758, an infant young star 500 light-years away. ✨
➡️
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Out of this world! 🌀Spiral
#galaxy
NGC 4254, 45 million light-years from Earth, is among the thousands of galaxies living and dying by the extreme physical processes in the Virgo Cluster.
📷: 📡ALMA (red/orange) 🛰️
@NASAHubble
@HUBBLE_space
(white/blue).
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On a day like today, Jocelyn Bell discovered a Pulsar with a Radio Telescope. 📡✨
What is a Pulsar? ALMA Glossary.
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.
@ehtelescope
pinpoints dark 🖤 of the nearest radio galaxy. The astronomers pinpoint the location of the central supermassive black hole and reveal how a gigantic jet is being born. Most remarkably, only the outer edges of the jet seem to emit radiation
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📡The "Juno" (a.k.a DA-47) antenna developed by
@ESO
observing the "Magellanic Clouds", which can only be observed from the Southern Hemisphere 🌀🌀
📷 by our photo-ambassador
@_ansack
#fridaymorning
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2020 and the Cosmos by ALMA.
📡📡〰〰✨✨🪐☄️
LAST DAY OF 2020!
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📡Astronomers image for the first time a black hole’s shadow together with a powerful jet. For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 and the powerful jet expelled from it
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📡Here just casually moving a 100-ton antenna with a remote control transporter.😱😎 Video by
@jcrojas819
#YourALMAPicture
📡
#WednesdayWisdom
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The
#Einstein
ring!😱
The gravity of a massive galaxy✨ interposed between the observer and a more distant galaxy can curve the light of the latter galaxy. If both are perfectly aligned, the result is a distorted image of the distant galaxy.
@AlbertEinstein
#Astronomy
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