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How are ALMA’s antennas connected?
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Did life originate in space?
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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”
Make Your Own Light Box
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Pollution alert in the early universe
We all know about environmental pollution. The air is polluted by cars, airplanes and factories. Theoceans are polluted with plastic. Humans produce a lot of filth that spreads throughout our world,slowly but surely.Now, astronomers have discovered the first environmental pollution in the universe. It’s notproduced by humans, but by...
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Star-spawning ‘peacock clouds’ hint at galaxy interaction
The two images shown here look like the beautifully colored tails of peacocks, don’t you think?Well, think again. In reality, these are giant clouds of gas in a neighboring galaxy. The ‘feathers’ are long filaments of gas. Deep within the two clouds, the gas is compressed into several very...
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ALMA sees two-way traffic around a black hole
Here’s an easy experiment you can do at home. Fill the kitchen sink with water. Then pull out theplug, and carefully watch how the water flows down the drain. You will notice that it doesn’tdisappear in a straight line. Instead, the water flows away in a rotating, spiral pattern.You’ll...
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Fat Stars Grow Just Like Skinny Stars
How much did you weigh when you were born? Most newborns are between 3 and 4 kilograms at birth. But not all. Some babies weigh much more or much less. It all depends on how fast they grew. With baby stars, it’s the same. Most newborn stars can have...
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