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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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How are ALMA images created?
ALMA measures millimeter waves from the sky. These millimeter waves are emitted by cold dust clouds in the Universe. The clouds are so cold that
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Is there a lot to see?
ALMA is located in the Atacama Desert. When thinking about a desert, you probably imagine a vast, boring stretch of hot sand, with the occasional
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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