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Astronomers Detect a Hot Gas Bubble Swirling Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

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Astronomers Detect a Hot Gas Bubble Swirling Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

ALMA Witnesses Deadly Star-Slinging Tug-of-War Between Merging Galaxies

ALMA Witnesses Deadly Star-Slinging Tug-of-War Between Merging Galaxies

Iconic ALMA image quoted in over a thousand scientific papers in less than a decade

Iconic ALMA image quoted in over a thousand scientific papers in less than a decade

ALMA – In Search of our Cosmic Origins

ALMA – In Search of our Cosmic Origins

ALMA Will Host a Science Conference to Celebrate 10 Years

ALMA Will Host a Science Conference to Celebrate 10 Years

New Material "Fingerprint" to Understand Planetary System Formation with ALMA

New Material "Fingerprint" to Understand Planetary System Formation with ALMA

ALMA Makes First-Ever Detection of Gas in a Circumplanetary Disk

ALMA Makes First-Ever Detection of Gas in a Circumplanetary Disk

Out With a Bang: Explosive Neutron Star Merger Captured for the First Time in Millimeter Light

Out With a Bang: Explosive Neutron Star Merger Captured for the First Time in Millimeter Light

Capturing the Onset of Galaxy Rotation in the Early Universe

Capturing the Onset of Galaxy Rotation in the Early Universe

Close Encounter More Than 10,000 Years Ago Stirred Up Spirals in an Accretion Disk

Close Encounter More Than 10,000 Years Ago Stirred Up Spirals in an Accretion Disk

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Astronomical Mural

Astronomical Mural

ALMA Gets Front-Row Seat to an Ongoing Star-Formation Standoff in the Large Magellanic Cloud

ALMA Gets Front-Row Seat to an Ongoing Star-Formation Standoff in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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Where is ALMA?

Operation Support Facility (OSF)

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Array Operation Site (AOS)

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Santiago Central Offices (SCO)

Santiago, Chile

Operations Support Facility (OSF)
The ALMA Operations Support Facility, at an altitude of 2900 metres in the Chilean Andes, serves as the focal point for most of the observatory activities, hosting the antenna control room, laboratories and offices. Address: Kilómetro 121, Carretera CH 23, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Phone: +56 2 2467 6416
Array Operation Site (AOS)
The ALMA Array Operations Site, at an altitude of 5000 metres in the Chilean Andes, houses the ALMA antennas and the correlator, the fastest data processing system ever used at an astronomical site. Coordinates: 23° 1′ 23.5″ S, 67° 45′ 16.7″ W

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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.