Mark Adams, assistant director for education and public outreach at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, says the observatory will bring a new dimension to the study of the origins of the universe.
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, also known as ALMA, is one of the world's largest ground-based astronomy projects and a major new facility for world astronomy. Built in the Atacama desert in Chile, the project will include 80 high-precision telescopes. The ALMA project is an international collaboration between Europe, Japan and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.
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Still images courtesy of ESO. Video Images courtesy of NRAO.
