Atacama Large Millimiter/submillimeter Array

Atacama Large Millimiter/submillimeter Array
Pair of Massive Baby Stars Swaddled in Salty Water Vapor

Pair of Massive Baby Stars Swaddled in Salty Water Vapor

 ALMA Get Unprecedented View of Gas and Dust in a Cosmological Deep Field

ALMA Get Unprecedented View of Gas and Dust in a Cosmological Deep Field

 Astronomers Capture Stellar Winds in Unprecedented Detail

Astronomers Capture Stellar Winds in Unprecedented Detail

 COVID-19 (coronavirus) Measures at ALMA

COVID-19 (coronavirus) Measures at ALMA

 Possible Marker of Life Spotted on Venus

Possible Marker of Life Spotted on Venus

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  • ALMA, a worldwide collaboration

  • The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) -the largest astronomical project in existence- is a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed of 66 high precision antennas located on the Chajnantor Plateau, 5000 meters altitude in northern Chile. ALMA is an international partnership of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan, together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.