Quite a dish
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) — a state-of-the-art telescope to study light from some of the coldest objects in the Universe — operates high on the Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes. ALMA comprises 66 high-precision antennae, each weighing in at over 100 tons. Here one of the dishes is visible in spectacular close up detail, dwarfing the large car parked beneath it.
Credit:S. Otarola/ESO
About the Image
Id: | dsc-6985-tiff-cc |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 6 September 2016, 10:28 |
Size: | 6016 x 4016 px |
About the Object
Name: | Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
Category: | ALMA |
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