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This figure shows observations of the first hot molecular core to be found outside the Milky Way Galaxy with ALMA and a view of the region of sky in infrared light. Left: distributions of molecular line emission from a hot molecular core in the LMC observed with ALMA. Emissions from dust, sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitric oxide (NO), and formaldehyde (H2CO) are shown as examples. Right: an infrared image of the surrounding star-forming region (based on data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope). Image credit: T. Shimonishi / Tohoku University / ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO.

First ‘Hot Molecular Core’ Discovered Outside Milky Way

Sep 29, 2016 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered the first ‘hot molecular core’ — a cocoon of complex...