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ALMA Sheds Light on Planet-Forming Gas Streams — Tantalising
signs of flows feeding gas-guzzling giant planets 2 January
2013: Astronomers using the Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have seen a key
stage in the birth of giant planets for the first time. Vast
streams of gas are flowing across a gap in the disc of material
around a young star. These are the first direct observations of
such streams, which are expected to be created by giant planets
guzzling gas as they grow. The result is published on 2 January
2013 in the journal Nature. eso1253 — Organisation Release All
Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer — ALMA correlator
turns many antennas into one giant telescope 21 December 2012:
One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has now
been fully installed and tested at its remote, high altitude
site in the Andes of northern Chile. This marks one of the major
remaining milestones toward completion of