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ALMA antennas on distant pads with the central antennas in the background.
ALMA Extends Its Arms: Longest baseline ever achieved for ALMA
September 24, 2014 at 1:00 pm | Announcement

ALMA scientists successfully test an antenna 11 kilometers from its nearest neighbor — the most extended configuration yet.

T Tauri star AS 205 N and its companion
Infant Solar System Shows Signs of Windy Weather
September 22, 2014 at 7:00 pm | News Release

Astronomers using ALMA have observed what may be the first-ever signs of windy weather around a T Tauri star, an infant analog of our own Sun.

Single frame from animation showing rotation after galactic merger
Galaxy Mergers Defy Expectations to Produce Disk Galaxies
September 17, 2014 at 1:00 am | News Release

ALMA and other radio telescopes provide the first direct evidence that merging galaxies can produce disk galaxies.

Planet Uranus as seen with ALMA's Band 10 receivers.
ALMA Achieves New Observing Capabilities: High Frequency Vision Shows Uranus in New Light
September 10, 2014 at 4:00 pm | Announcement

ALMA reached a major milestone by extending its vision fully into the realm of the submillimeter.

H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836
Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe
August 26, 2014 at 4:00 pm | News Release

ALMA and VLA team up with other observatories for best view ever of merging galaxies in the distant Universe.

ALMA employees
First of ALMA’s Fleet of Front End Handling Vehicles Delivered, Compliments of NRAO
August 25, 2014 at 1:22 pm | Announcement

NRAO has delivered the first of ALMA’s four new Front End Handling Vehicles (FEHV).

Signing Ceremony Attendees
Japan and Republic of Korea Sign Agreement on ALMA
August 20, 2014 at 1:00 pm | Announcement

Korea officially joins in the East Asia ALMA consortium.

Comet ISON
Comets Forge Molecules in Their Dusty Atmospheres
August 11, 2014 at 7:00 pm | News Release

Scientists using ALMA probed the atmospheres of comets ISON and Lemmon providing important insights into how and where comets forge new chemicals, including intriguing organic compounds.

ALMA observation of Pluto and Charon
ALMA Pinpoints Pluto to Help Guide NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft
August 5, 2014 at 5:00 pm | News Release

ALMA took a detailed look at the dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon to help guide NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

ALMA data of HK Tau
Young Binary Star System May Form Planets with Weird and Wild Orbits
July 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm | News Release

While surveying a series of binary stars with ALMA, astronomers uncovered a pair of misaligned planet-forming disks around the young binary star HK Tau.

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