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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?
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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ALMA Crossword Puzzle
Board game “ALMAsteroids”
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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?
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?
New discoveries
Multimedia
Downloads
Fun Resources
Games and Experiments
ALMA Crossword Puzzle
Board game “ALMAsteroids”
Make Your Own Light Box
Create your own Radio Image!
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How are ALMA’s antennas connected?
Your eyes are connected to your brain through thick bundles of nerve cells. These optic nerves transfer the signals from your two retinas to your brain. Your brain processes the signals, and turns them into a nice three-dimensional view of your surroundings. Of course, it’s important that the signals...
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How does ALMA see ‘invisible light’?
Look around you. You see the text you are reading right now. You see the room where you’re sitting in. Outside the window, you may see the street where you live, and the Sun in the sky. Or, if it’s already dark, you may see the Moon and the...
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Is there a lot to see?
ALMA is located in the Atacama Desert. When thinking about a desert, you probably imagine a vast, boring stretch of hot sand, with the occasional palm tree. But the Atacama is very different. In fact, it’s extremely beautiful and varied. Especially the area around San Pedro de Atacama is...
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Why is ALMA so high?
ALMA is the highest observatory in the world. The Chajnantor Plateau, where the 66 ALMA antennas are located, is at five kilometers above sea level. It would take you about an hour to walk that distance – straight up! Only one building in the world is slightly higher –...
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ALMA detects aluminum around newborn star
Have you ever seen a shooting star? It looks like a star that falls down from theheavens. In reality, it’s a grain of space dust that enters Earth’s atmosphere. Becauseof collision with atmosphere, the dust particle evaporates and the air molecules startto glow – that’s the streak of light...
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Thanks to thawing effect of stellar outburst, ALMA finds building blocks of life
ALMA has detected the building blocks of life in the disk surrounding a young, distant star. The discovery may help astronomers to understand the origin of life in our own solar system. Some 3.5 billion years ago, certain molecules teamed up to form the first living organisms on Earth...
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Volcanoes produce almost half of the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Io
Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that the thin atmosphere of Io is largely due to its activevolcanoes. Io (pronounced EYE-oh) is a large moon of the giant planet Jupiter. Thanks to tidal forces from theplanet, it has a hot interior. The surface of Io is dotted with active volcanoes....
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The Cow: a mysterious explosion in space
On Earth, more than 350 thousand babies are born each day. If you think that is a lot, take a look at our Universe. In space, more than 100 million stars are born each day. But recently, something mysterious was born, something that astronomers have never seen before. The...
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