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Is ALMA a telescope?
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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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ALMA Crossword Puzzle
Board game “ALMAsteroids”
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Alas, freon-40 molecule is no evidence for life
New ALMA observations reveal that the hunt for life beyond Earth is not as easy as some had hoped. Over the past decades, astronomers have detected more than 3,500 planets orbiting other stars than our own Sun. No one knows if there’s life on some of these planets. Astronomers...
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ALMA captures ‘bubble-blowing star’
What does this nebula look like? A soap bubble, right? When you’re blowing soap bubbles, their outer rims are most conspicuous, even though the thin layer of soap has the same thickness everywhere. With this ALMA image, it’s the same. You’re not looking at a ring of glowing gas,...
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‘Hidden’ gas found in distant starburst galaxies
In some countries, more babies are born than in others. With galaxies, it’s the same: some galaxies have a much higher birth rate of new stars than others. Astronomers have studied six of those so-called starburst galaxies with the ALMA observatory. In five of them, they discovered large amounts...
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Hot cluster wind robs galaxies of stellar building material
Suppose you carry a tray with a lot of Lego blocks. More than enough to build a large number of houses. You want to play with your friends, at the center of the city square. But it’s very, very windy there. By the time you reach the center of...
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