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New Discoveries
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Cosmic ray particles disturb composition of Titan’s atmosphere
A sand storm is not the best place to cook a meal or to bake a cake. The sand particles might contaminate and affect the
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Tracing back one of the ingredients of life
If you bake a cake, you need all kinds of ingredients, like flour, butter, sugar and eggs. You can’t make something from nothing! Likewise, when
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Gas whirls in between monster black holes in galaxy crash
When two cars crash into each other, you end up with a lot of wreckage. The same is true for two colliding galaxies. Over time,
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Learn with Talma
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Do astronomers live at ALMA?
If you hold your breath for too long, you will die. Your body needs the oxygen in the air. Without getting enough oxygen, you can’t
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How do stars and planets form?
You live on a planet, called Earth. Together with seven other planets, Earth circles around the Sun. As far as we know, Earth is the
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How are the antennas moved around?
The huge array of 66 ALMA antennas is located at the Chajnantor Plateau in the north of Chile, at 5,000 meters altitude. The site is