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.

Atacama Large Millimeter Array

Nama alternatif	ALMA
Bagian dari	Llano de Chajnantor Observatory Event Horizon Telescope
Lokasi	Gurun Atacama, Region Antofagasta, Gurun Atacama, Chili
Koordinat	23°01′09″S 67°45′12″W
Organisasi	National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan Observatorium Selatan Eropa Yayasan Sains Nasional
Ketinggian	50.587 m (165.968 ft)
Model teleskop	radio interferometer
Situs web	www.almaobservatory.org
Location of Atacama Large Millimeter Array
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ALMA diharapkan dapat memberikan wawasan tentang kelahiran bintang pada alam semesta awal dan pencitraan rinci bintang lokal dan planet formasi.

Progress at the ALMA Operations Support Facility - a panoramic view.

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.