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The ALMA City

The international partners of ALMA built this city in the Atacama desert to support the hundreds of people required to build the world’s most complex astronomical observatory.

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

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The First Short GRB Millimeter Afterglow: The Wide-Angled Jet of Gamma Ray Burst 211106A

False color image of protoplanetary disks side by side. Left is a ring disk showing blue scattered outer ring, green inner rings with gaps, and a yellow core. Center is a transition disk with a thin outer blue ring and thin green and yellow rings, and a large empty cavity in the center. Right is a compact small disk with thin blue and green rings, and a large inner yellow core with no gaps.

Protoplanetary Disks Side-by-Side Comparison

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