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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?
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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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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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Build a paper model of an ALMA antenna
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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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ALMA finds life’s building blocks around Sun-like baby stars
Nobody knows how life got going here on Earth. But a new ALMA discovery may help solve this riddle. ALMA studied a group of newborn stars. They are surrounded by cocoons of gas and dust – the material from which they formed. These young ‘proto-stars’ are very much like...
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ALMA sees rubble ring from planet-forming process
Planets around other stars are hard to spot. In most cases, they are just too small. But a planetary system can betray its existence in other ways. ALMA has imaged a ‘ring’ of icy debris around the nearby star Fomalhaut. This ring can only be explained if Fomalhaut has...
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Spiral-in-a-gap hints at one or two planets around young star
Astronomers have detected a beautiful spiral pattern in the disk of material around a young star. It looks like the gas in the disk is somehow stirred up, probably by one or two planets. Young stars are surrounded by flat disks of gas and dust. The star AB Aurigae...
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