ALMA's gemelos
An image of a cluster of ALMA antennas on remote Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert. Although each dish may appear to be a separate telescope, in fact they work together as one large instrument through a technique known as interferometry. This creates a virtual telescope far larger than would be possible to construct as a single dish. Like a powerful set of binoculars ALMA allows researchers to probe the cool universe, from the most distant galaxies to the building blocks of life.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | 140616_ALMA_66_14-CC |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 24 April 2019, 16:01 |
Size: | 3372 x 2384 px |
About the Object
Name: | Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | ALMA |