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What is ALMA?
Is ALMA a telescope?
Why are there 66 antennas?
What are millimeter waves?
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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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Did life originate in space?
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Did life originate in space?
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Stellar cocoon doesn’t contain ingredients for recipe of life
If you want to cook up a nice meal, you need the right ingredients. Without beans, you can’t make a good chili. And to bake an apple pie, you need apples, of course. In the Universe, it’s the same. The available ingredients determine what can be ‘cooked up’. One...
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ALMA finds ‘pregnant’ galaxies in distant Universe
Billions of years ago, the Universe experienced a baby boom of new stars. Back then, the number of stars that were born in galaxies was much higher than it is now. New observations by ALMA have revealed new information about those early galaxies. In particular, ALMA has found ‘pregnant’’...
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Mystery blob shines because of embedded stars
ALMA has helped to solve a fifteen-year-old astronomical riddle. Observations with the 66-dish observatory have revealed the true nature of a huge mysterious object in the distant universe. The object is known as LAB-1. LAB stands for Lyman Alpha Blob. It’s a huge smudge of light in the night...
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Black hole hidden within its own exhaust
Almost every galaxy in the Universe has a massive black hole in its core. With its gravity, the black hole sucks in material from its surroundings. It gobbles up clouds of gas and dust, and maybe even complete stars. The black hole’s ‘food’ first piles up in a thin,...
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