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How are ALMA’s antennas connected?
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How do solar explosions work?
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Is ALMA a telescope?
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What are millimeter waves?
Who build 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?
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”
Make Your Own Light Box
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Cosmic ray particles disturb composition of Titan’s atmosphere
A sand storm is not the best place to cook a meal or to bake a cake. The sand particles migh contaminate and affect the ingredients, and the end result would taste badly.In space, too, particles from outside may affect the way molecules are ‘cooked’. Using ALMA, astronomers have...
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If you bake a cake, you need all kinds of ingredients, like flour, butter, sugar and eggs. You can’t makesomething from nothing! Likewise, when life first emerged on our planet, it needed its owningredients. Some of those, like carbon and oxygen, are readily available in the universe. But forother...
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Gas whirls in between monster black holes in galaxy crash
When two cars crash into each other, you end up with a lot of wreckage. The same is true for twocolliding galaxies. Over time, they may merge into one larger galaxy, but right after the crash,everything looks very chaotic.That’s the case with the galaxy NGC 6240, which has now...
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