Atacama Large Millimiter/submillimeter Array

Atacama Large Millimiter/submillimeter Array
How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets

How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets

 Galactic Cosmic Rays Affect Titan’s Atmosphere

Galactic Cosmic Rays Affect Titan’s Atmosphere

 ALMA catches beautiful outcome of stellar fight

ALMA catches beautiful outcome of stellar fight

 ALMA workers were part of a research to reduce hypoxia effects

ALMA workers were part of a research to reduce hypoxia effects

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Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks

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  • ALMA, a worldwide collaboration

  • The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (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), NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. 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.