ALMA Unlocks the Chemical Secrets of a Starburst Galaxy
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ALMA Unlocks the Chemical Secrets of a Starburst Galaxy

28 March, 2024

Astronomers observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) the center of a relatively nearby galaxy known as NGC 253, which produces stars at a very high rate. With more than 300 hours of observation, they detected more than one hundred molecular species, far more than previous studies outside the Milky Way have detected. The...