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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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Did life originate in space?
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Life’s building blocks come from outer space
Life is based on carbon chemistry. Without carbon, there would be no plants, animals, or people. Because carbon is so important for biology, all molecules that carry carbon atoms are called organic molecules. Simple organic molecules, like carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4), are the very first building blocks...
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Planets form in a disk that contains alcohol
Astronomers have found alcohol in a planet-forming disk. It’s not the regular form of alcohol that makes you drunk. Instead, it’s methyl alcohol, or methanol. Moreover, the methanol that has been found is not in the form of a liquid. Instead, it’s a gas. Methanol consists of rather large...
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Forecast: Cold downpours expected for giant black hole
A giant black hole in a distant galaxy is in for some heavy rain storms. Using ALMA, astronomers have discovered giant clouds of cold gas that shower down on the black hole. An umbrella doesn’t help – it would need to be hundreds of light-years across. Most distant galaxies...
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ALMA discovers that planets are born quicker than thought
Adapted from Space Scoop – UNAWE. It takes nine months for a human baby to grow and 22-months for a baby elephant. But how long does it take to grow a planet? It turns out, it takes much less time than we thought. Previously, it was believed to take...
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