The ALMA Music Box, currently on display in Japan, now available on iTunes Music from the ALMA Music Box — an audio artwork that plays melodies created from ALMA observations — is now available to be purchased in the iTunes store, on the compilation set “Music for a Dying Star”. R Sculptoris, a massive red giant star located roughly 1000...
Vivian White, from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific travels to Chile and quickly discovers why Northern Chile generally—and the Atacama Desert specifically—has become the "go-to place for some of the world's largest telescopes". Download the article PDF This article was first published in the July 30th issue of Astronomy Beat and is...
Globular clusters – dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars – are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples are vanishingly rare and the conditions necessary to create new ones have never been detected, until now. Astronomers using the Atacama Large...
"ALMA’s astronomical discoveries exemplify the triumphs of big science projects" according to <em>Science Magazine’s editorial.