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📡ALMA and VLA📡 @TheNRAO, Reveal Signs of a Companion Stirring Betelgeuse’s Atmosphere.
The companion star is known as Siwarha.
⭐️almaobservatory.org/en/press…
📷: Artist’s impression of Siwarha moving through Betelgeuse’s outer atmosphere and leaving a wake.
ALT Artist’s impression of Siwarha moving through Betelgeuse’s outer atmosphere and leaving a wake. This illustration depicts the proposed interaction; it is not a telescope image of the companion. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M. Weiss
🦙The neighbor sharing some juicy gossip with us 👀.
Have you ever heard the sound a vicuña makes?
📹: N. Lira
🌀This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant confirmed galaxy.
✨Supernova explosions in this galaxy would have spread heavy elements forged inside stars, like oxygen, which has been now detected with the ALMA.
📷: 2025, @ESO /M. Kornmesser
📡We are on @TechExplorist "ALMA Reveals Hidden Planet-Forming Structures in the Smallest Disks"
techexplorist.com/tiny-plane…
📡We are on @SPACEdotcom "Betelgeuse is haunted by a cosmic poltergeist tormenting the doomed star's atmosphere"
space.com/astronomy/stars/be…
📡At Chajnantor, exploring the cosmos means working in extreme conditions.
🫡Our team knows this firsthand.
Here, ALMA staff clear snow from the roads and check the antennas, keeping the observatory ready to explore the Universe.
📷: @jcrojas819 ALMA Photo-ambassador.
🙌🏻On this day 23 years ago, the first stone was laid for the construction of the ALMA observatory.
✨ALMA officials and partners gathered on the Chajnantor Plateau, at an altitude of 5,000m in the Atacama Desert, the site where ALMA installed its 66 antennas.
📷: @ALMA_Japan
ALMA Observatory📡 retweeted
アルマ望遠鏡のデータをデータに忠実に描き出す新イメージングツールPRIISM。従来の再解析により原始惑星系円盤のリングやすき間等、惑星形成の手がかりが次々発見されている。仕組みや成果を解説。alma-telescope.jp/news/priis…
✨We are stardust. Thank you, Sir Patrick Stewart.
📷: ALMA reveals the hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
Quote in the image by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, from the *Star Trek* series.
Finally, the "Astro Gull" 🪶
One of our neighbors on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile is the Andean Gull.
Have you heard of it?
📷: @_ansack, ALMA Photo-ambassador.
🫡My current status✅
📡We recently revealed the irregular surface of Betelgeuse, the famous red supergiant in the constellation Orion.
⭐️The observations show bright hot spots and an irregular, corrugated outline, shaped by the enormous movements taking place inside the Star.
🙌Good morning!
📡Snowfall at the ALMA antenna array.
📍Chajnator Plateau, Chile.
🏔️5,050m altitude.
🌡️-5°C.
❄️Wind chill -15°C.
📷: Pablo Bello. ALMA Photo-Ambassador.
ALMA Observatory📡 retweeted
NEW: What Lurks Within the Shadows of Betelgeuse?
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse … 👻 You can say it three times, but new data (NSF VLA and @almaobs) suggests that its recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, is the one doing the haunting.
public.nrao.edu/news/what-lu…
🙌🏻“ALMA Open House in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile” — it’s a wrap!
It had been 7 years since we last hosted public visits, and nearly 160 people took part across these two special events.
🙂Would you like to see public visits return? Let us know in the comments!
📡"Cosmic “Hamburger” Has the Secret Ingredients (For Giant Planet Formation, That Is)" by @TheNRAO
public.nrao.edu/news/gomez-h…
📡"Tiny planet-forming disks reveal a big surprise about how planets are born" by @TechExplorist techexplorist.com/tiny-plane…
☄️Fragments of Comet Halley falling like a “meteor shower.”
✨The Orionids at the ALMA observatory. October 20–23, 2026.
📹: Asashi Shimbun. ALMA Team. @ALMA_Japan