Atacama Large Millimeter Array

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) adalah teleskop radio astronomi interferometer di gurun Atacama Chili utara. Situs yang sangat penting untuk operasi gelombang panjang milimeter, array telah dibangun di dataran tinggi Chajnantor di ketinggian 5.000 meter, dekat Llano de Chajnantor Observatory dan Atacama Pathfinder Experiment. ALMA diharapkan dapat memberikan wawasan tentang kelahiran bintang pada alam semesta awal dan pencitraan rinci bintang lokal dan planet formasi. Referensi Official ALMA site NRAO ALMA site UK ALMA site ESO ALMA site ALMA site Diarsipkan 2012-01-03 di Wayback Machine. by NAOJ ALMA Antennas Collect First Data, "bbc.co.uk, 17 November 2009. How the Huge ALMA Radio Telescope Works (Infographic), Space.com, 12 March 2013. Into Deep Space: The Birth of the Alma Observatory Diarsipkan 2014-04-08 di Wayback Machine. An optical system design for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array SPIE Newsroom, 5 June 2014. CBS News' "60 Minutes" program, original broadcast on 9 March 2014, rebroadcast on 27 July 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Michael Gavshon and David Levine, producers.