Giant machines for moving around ALMA antennas
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile, is the
Lyrids in Southern Skies
Lyrid meteor shower peaked, as every year, before dawn on April 22nd, as our blue planet plowed through dust from the tail of long-period comet
Spectacular total lunar eclipse on April 15
It was a spectacular total lunar eclipse (2014 April 15), explains the talented photographer Babak A. Tafreshi, under the crystal clear night sky of La
A Milky Way Dawn
As dawn broke on March 27, the center of the Milky Way Galaxy stood almost directly above the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory. Image ©
Supernova Dust Factory by ALMA
This artist’s illustration of Supernova 1987A is based on real data and reveals the cold, inner regions of the exploded star’s remnants (in red) where
Coldest Place in the Universe
The Boomerang nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe. Is colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, at a
Mysteries of Jets from Giant Black Holes
Using the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), two international teams of astronomers focused on jets from the huge black holes at the
World’s Biggest Telescope Is finally completed
The last antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project has just been handed over to the ALMA Observatory. By the end of the
Earth’s most Powerful ALMA Telescope goes online
On 13 March 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), most Powerful Telescope, the largest astronomical project in the world, will be inaugurated in Chile,
Key Stage in the Birth of Giant Planets observed
The key stage in the Birth of Giant Planets observed by Astronomers using the ALMA telescope. They have seen vast streams of gas, expected to be
