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      • 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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    • ALMA discovers moons in the making

      Every child on the planet knows the moon: a ball of rock orbiting the Earth. Most of the other planets in our solar system have

    • The Cow: a mysterious explosion in space

      On Earth, more than 350 thousand babies are born each day. If you think that is a lot, take a look at our Universe. In

    • ALMA and Talma also watched the solar eclipse

      On July 2, 2019, inhabitants of Chile enjoyed an eclipse of the Sun, which was total in the regions of Coquimbo and Atacama. The Moon

    • Say cheese, black hole! – you’re on camera!

      For the first time ever, astronomers have taken a photo of a black hole. Black holes are regions in space where gravity is extreme. Everything

    • Why does this monster galaxy keep on forming new stars

      Sometimes, scientists are like little children. They always ask ‘why?’. That’s because they want to understand everything they see. A lot of ‘why questions’ have

    • ALMA maps Europa’s temperature

      A terrestrial volcano is hotter than its surroundings. The same is true for geysers like the ones in Yellowstone National Park in the United States,

    • Distant Hot DOG galaxy is a cannibal, ALMA finds

      Many people eat chicken, cow or pig. Cruel enough, if you think about it. But eating other people is much worse, of course. Eating your

    • Hold your breath: oxygen found in the very early universe

      Every breath you take contains a lot of oxygen. Oxygen gas is an important ingredient of our atmosphere. Without it, there would be no human

    • ALMA maps organic molecules in the ‘coma’ of comet Wirtanen

      ALMA maps organic molecules in the ‘coma’ of comet Wirtanen A bright comet passed by the Earth in December, and ALMA has studied it in

    • ALMA carries out large census of ‘star factories’ in other galaxies

      Not all families are the same. Some have many children; others just a few. In some cases, families live close together in their home town;

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