ALMA

201166 antennasESO/NAOJ/NRAO

LocationChile

Year2011

Size66 antennas

OperatorESO/NAOJ/NRAO

About ALMA

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array. 66 precision antennas at 5,058 m altitude. Cost 1.4 billion dollars. Located on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Atacama Desert. Captured the first detailed image of a protoplanetary disk. Can detect radio waves from some of the most distant galaxies.

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