The process of returning ALMA to operational status has begun by powering up the first few antennas for the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown in March of 2021.
The Strange Orbits of ‘Tatooine’ Planetary Disks
Astronomers using ALMA have found striking orbital geometries in protoplanetary disks around binary stars.
Radio Jupiter: Seeing the Giant Planet in a New Light
By looking at Jupiter in radio light, ALMA and the VLA reveal a world hidden by its layers of clouds.
Liberal Sprinkling of Salt Discovered around a Young Star
ALMA discovered ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years from Earth in the disk surrounding a massive young star.
ALMA Sees Stars Forming Near Galaxy Core
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
World-Wide Effort Bringing ALMA Telescope Into Reality
In the thin, dry air of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 16,500 feet, an amazing new telescope system is taking shape, on schedule to provide the world’s astronomers with unprecedented views of the origins of stars, galaxies, and planets.