The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, or ALMA, is already producing amazing science results. To see the telescope up close at an altitude of 16,500 feet (5,000 meters) is even more incredible. This high-precision instrument on top of the world is truly one of the most impressive sights that I have ever seen. So what’s …
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A rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope, one of three “extremely large telescope” facilities slated for completion within a decade that will be large enough to resolve the universe’s first objects. Illustration: GMTO Corporation From the properties of dark matter to how the universe took shape shortly after the Big Bang, some of the universe’s …
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After a detailed evaluation process, members of the Square Kilometer Array Organization agreed on a dual-site solution — Australia and South Africa.
ALMA’s first released image reveals a view of the universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared telescopes.
