In a moment long-awaited by thousands of astronomers from around the globe, a cluster of precision radio telescopes located on the barren Chajnantor Plateau of northern Chile has finally gone ...

Today, in a remote part of the Chilean Andes, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), was inaugurated at an official ceremony. This event marks the completion of all the major systems ...

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From learning the chemistry and structure of planet-forming disks around young stars to helping to produce the first images of black holes, ALMA has proved to be a prodigious astronomical tool. When ...