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The turbulent birth of super star clusters in galaxy mergers

By combining two of the most advanced telescopes in the world -- the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of ESO -- a team of French astronomers from the Institut d'astrophysique ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

KIT: Fast and easy programming

An increasing number of electronics products such as smartphones are equipped with fast, energy-efficient multi-core processors. As a matter of fact, however, programming of the respective applications is ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New views of the cosmos

Though it won’t be completed until 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a radio telescope observatory under construction in northern Chile, is already the most powerful and complex ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Antennas by General Dynamics enable 'early science' for ALMA

Thirteen 12-meter antennas manufactured by General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies have been successfully installed at the 16,500-foot-high Chajnantor plateau in Chile, home to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomical observatory. Loc ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Most complex ground-based observatory - ALMA - opens its eyes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Cryogenic catering truck comes to the ALMA observatory

The ultimate in high altitude, high-tech catering has arrived in Chile to serve chilled "provisions" to the telescopes at the largest astronomical complex in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16

The first European antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has reached new heights, having been transported to the observatory’s Array Operations Site (AOS) on 27 July 2011. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Closing the loop for ALMA

On 20 November 2009 the third antenna for the ALMA observatory was successfully installed at the Array Operations Site, the observatory's "high site" on the Chajnantor plateau, at an altitude of 5000 metres ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ALMA telescope reaches new heights

The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) astronomical observatory took another step forward and upward, as one of its state-of-the-art antennas was carried for the first time to Chile's 16,500-foot-high ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Major milestone: First two ALMA telescope antennas linked

On 30 April, the team observed the first "interferometric fringes" of an astronomical source by linking two 12-metre diameter ALMA antennas, together with the other critical parts of the system. Mars was chosen ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Nanotechnology makes supertelescopes much more sensitive

Nanotechnologist Chris Lodewijk has succeeded in significantly increasing the sensitivity of the new supertelescopes in Chile. He will receive his PhD on this topic at Delft University of Technology on Monday 2 February.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0