This panoramic view of Chajnantor shows the antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) against a starry night sky.ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
Image of the dust ring around the bright star Fomalhaut from the ALMA, and underlying blue image obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The ALMA image provided astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system and provided valuable clues about how such systems form and evolve.LMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
Four antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) gaze up at the star-filled night sky.ESO/José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org)
Mission name: ALMA
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
The most powerful Earth observatory in history
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