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The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)-Artwork

author: ESO/Novapix

reference: o-cha90-01004

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 22 cm

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), one of the largest ground-based astronomy projects of the next decade, is a major new facility for world astronomy. ALMA will be comprised of a giant array of 12-m submillimetre quality antennas, with baselines of several kilometres. An additional, compact array of 7-m and 12-m antennas is also foreseen. Construction of ALMA started in 2003 and will be completed in 2010. The ALMA project is an international collaboration between Europe, Japan and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.

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ALMA - ANDES - ANTENNA - ASTRONOMY - ATACAMA - CHAJNANTOR - CHILE - ILLUSTRATION - MILLIMETER - OBSERVATORY - RADIO - RADIOTELESCOPE - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE -