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Sonidos de ALMA

Sonidos de ALMA

https://vimeo.com/170847460 Sonidos de ALMA es un punto de encuentro entre la radioastronomía captada por el Atacama Large Millimeter/submilliter Array (ALMA) y la música de quienes quieran crear obras a partir de observaciones del radiotelescopio más importante del mundo. Nació de la inquietud recurrente de artistas y astrónomos por comprender y...

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...

NRAO Call for Proposals: Semester 2016B

NRAO Call for Proposals: Semester 2016B

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites scientists to participate in the NRAO Semester 2016B Call for Proposals for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), Very Large Array (VLA), and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), High Sensitivity Array (HSA), and Global 3mm VLBI Array (GMVA). The submission deadline for Semester 2016B proposals is...