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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
      • Create your own Radio Image!
      • Make Your Own Light Box
      • Get your own ALMA virtual antenna
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    • Why are there 66 antennas?

      Have you ever noticed that owls have big eyes? That’s because they live at night. During the dark, you need really big eyes to see

    • Is ALMA a telescope?

      Did you ever try to count the stars in the sky? It’s almost impossible – there’s just too many of them! On a clear, dark

    • 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

    • Who build ALMA?

      Since Hans Lipperhey built his first cheap telescope in his own workshop, telescopes became larger, and also more expensive. Sometimes, rich businessmen provided the money

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