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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?
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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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How do solar explosions work?
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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?
How are ALMA images created?
What can you see with ALMA?
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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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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Distant dust belt may hint at as-yet-undiscovered planet
ALMA has imaged a broad band of dust and pebbles around a distant star. There’s one problem, though: the inner edge of the band lies further away from the star than expected. The discovery may hint at the presence of an as-yet-undiscovered planet. The star (HR 8799) is known...
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How to Precisely Weight a Black Hole with ALMA?
By carefully looking at other people, you can guess how much they weigh. But if someone wears Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, you have no idea – the invisible person could be a skinny boy or a fat lady. Astronomers have a similar problem. By carefully looking at stars or...
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ALMA Founds Dark Dwarf Galaxy
We all know about stars, nebulae and galaxies. But these luminous objects are just the bright tip of a huge, dark cosmic iceberg. Most of the mass in the Universe consists of mysterious dark matter. Dark matter cannot be seen, and no one knows its composition. Cosmologists believe that...
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