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New Discoveries
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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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Pollution alert in the early universe
We all know about environmental pollution. The air is polluted by cars, airplanes and factories. The oceans are polluted with plastic. Humans produce a lot
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Learn with Talma
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What are millimeter waves?
If your ears are good, you can hear very high tones. Children’s ears are usually better than the ears of grown-ups. So you might be
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How does ALMA see ‘invisible light’?
Look around you. You see the text you are reading right now. You see the room where you’re sitting in. Outside the window, you may
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Why is ALMA so high?
ALMA is the highest observatory in the world. The Chajnantor Plateau, where the 66 ALMA antennas are located, is at five kilometers above sea level.