High in the Atacama region of northern Chile one of the world’s most advanced telescopes has just passed a major milestone. The first of many state-of-the-art antennas has been handed over to the ...

The ALMA Observatory, one of the world’s most advanced astronomical facilities, has uncovered unprecedented details about the earliest galaxies formed in the universe. The results of the CRISTAL ...

When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and submillimeter space observatory in the 1990s, they knew they couldn't just build it ...

A recent post on X from the ALMA Observatory shows one of the telescope's antenna dishes under construction, with the caption: "Fifteen years ago, when the antennas ... arrived to Chile, they were ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array regrets that it was unable to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement with its union, whose members are employed by Associated Universities Inc., to ...

A team of astronomers led by Paulo Cortes, a scientist with the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Joint ALMA Observatory, have made a groundbreaking ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in ...

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to date of the building blocks of the early universe -- primarily cold gases, ...

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Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...