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What is ALMA?
Is ALMA a telescope?
Why are there 66 antennas?
What are millimeter waves?
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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?
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How do solar explosions work?
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How do stars and planets form?
Did life originate in space?
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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?
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How do solar explosions work?
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How do stars and planets form?
Did life originate in space?
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Build a paper model of an ALMA antenna
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‘Hole in the ALMA sky’ is produced by hot cluster gas
Do you see the large ‘hole’ in this ALMA image? It looks as if someone cut a circular hole in a blue veil, with a large cluster of galaxies right behind the hole. But appearances can be deceiving. In fact, the ‘blue veil’ originates behind the galaxy cluster. It’s...
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ALMA witness stellar growth spurt
Have you ever experienced a growth spurt? Three times within a year or so, you need new T-shirts or new shoes, just because you’re growing so fast. It happens with teenagers, but also with baby stars. By comparing new ALMA observations with older measurements from another observatory, astronomers have...
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ALMA looks over the fence to Milky Way’s light-weight neighbor
Suppose you live in a very big house, with lots of families, each one with many children. Every month or so, a new baby is born, so you know all about it. You wonder about childbirth in other houses. But the nearest big house is many miles away, and...
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ALMA sets a dusty distance record
ALMA has set a new record. It has observed a galaxy known as A2744_YD4 – the most distant galaxy ever studied by the 66-dish observatory. The galaxy is so remote that its light took a whopping 13.2 billion years to reach Earth. This means that astronomers are seeing the...
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