Green ALMA Telescopes with the Milky Way

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Green ALMA Telescopes with the Milky Way

Photo taken by Bettymaya Foott as part of an astrophotography project with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Individual antennas in the ALMA array appear green to show, thanks to lights that signal observing is taking place. The Milky Way glows overhead the Chajnantor plateau of the Chilean Andes.

Credit: NSF/ AUI/ NSF NRAO/ B.Foott

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