ALMA Telescopes (IMAGE)

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ALMA Telescopes

Caption

This image shows the ALMA telescopes on the Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama desert in Northern Chile. ALMA consists now of 44 telescopes, and when it finishes construction in late 2013 it will consist of 66 telescopes, that will measure radiation with (sub)millimeter wavelengths from young stars and distant galaxies with so-far unprecedented resolution and sensitivity.

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ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO

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