ALMA is a new radio telescope in the Chilean Andes that will focus on the millimeter and submillimeter wavelength range, which means it will be an excellent vehicle for studing the chemistry underlying the universe. How the first molecules formed in space after the Big Bang and how chemistry drives the birth and death of stars, planets, and the entire solar system are some of the questions that astronomers and chemists hope ALMA will help answer. No device has allowed these phenomena to be studied in such detail before.
ALMA will have 66 antennas working together as a single telescope. It will be up to 10 miles across.
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