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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?
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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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    • 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

    • Do astronomers live at ALMA?

      If you hold your breath for too long, you will die. Your body needs the oxygen in the air. Without getting enough oxygen, you can’t

    • 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.

    • Where is Chajnantor?

      ALMA is the biggest astronomical observatory on Earth. It was built by countries in North America, Europe and East Asia. You might expect that ALMA

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