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Alma telescope peers into space from Chile’s mountains

Alma telescope peers into space from Chile’s mountains

By Gideon Long, BBC News, Chajnantour Plateau, Chile 29 May 2016 From the section Latin America & Caribbean Image copyright GIDEON LONGImage caption The dishes measure up to 12m (39ft) in diameter On a bitterly cold afternoon, a small team of engineers moves slowly across Chile's Chajnantor plateau. Bundled up against the biting wind, they...

2016 Astronomy Outreach Ambassadors to Visit World-class Observatories in Chile

2016 Astronomy Outreach Ambassadors to Visit World-class Observatories in Chile

A group of nine outreach and education professionals from across the United States and Puerto Rico was selected to be the 2016 class for the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP), an immersive astronomy outreach and awareness program sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). These ambassadors, each of whom has a...

The Frigid Flying Saucer

The Frigid Flying Saucer

ALMA finds unexpectedly cold grains in planet-forming disk Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and IRAM telescopes to make the first direct measurement of the temperature of the large dust grains in the outer parts of a planet-forming disk around a young star. By applying a novel technique to observations...