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    • Information
      • What is ALMA?
        • Is ALMA a telescope?
        • Why are there 66 antennas?
        • What are millimeter waves?
        • Who build ALMA?
      • Where is ALMA?
        • Where is Chajnantor?
        • Why is ALMA so high?
        • Do astronomers live at ALMA?
        • Is there a lot to see?
      • How does ALMA work?
        • How does ALMA see ‘invisible light’?
        • How are ALMA’s antennas connected?
        • How are the antennas moved around?
        • How are ALMA images created?
      • What can you see with ALMA?
        • How do solar explosions work?
        • When were the first galaxies born?
        • How do stars and planets form?
        • Did life originate in space?
    • Discoveries
    • News
    • Multimedia
      • Art Gallery
      • ALMA Virtual Tour
      • Flora and Fauna Gallery
      • Children’s songs about the Cosmos
      • Videos
    • Games
      • Get your own ALMA virtual antenna
      • Create your own Radio Image!
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    • Gas-Guzzling Giants

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    • From Grains to the Planets

      For a long time we’ve known that planets form and live around stars. For example, the Sun is the parent star of all the planets

    • You Spin Me Right Round

      Have you ever pulled at a loose bit of thread on one of your jumpers and it just keeps unravelling? Astronomers have spotted a similar

    • ALMA speeds up cosmic detective work

      Suppose someone stole money from the office of your school director. It must have been a teacher or a student – no one else was

    • Astronomers Make a Sweet Discovery

      Did you know that sugar contains some of the essential ingredients for life? That doesn’t mean that eating lots of sweets is healthy. However, sugar

    • Seeing Things in a Different Light

      When the Sun starts to shine after it has rained, you can see a beautiful rainbow in the sky. This is because water droplets remain

    • Small, cold planets for Fomalhaut

      Fomalhaut is a bright star in the constellation the Southern Fish. It is best visible in October and November. It’s not very far from our

    • Go Team ALMA!

      Welcome to the star-studded premiere of the most complex telescope on Earth: ALMA! To celebrate the launch of ALMA, astronomers have released the first photo

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