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45-meter telescope at NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Japan. The telescope discovered rotating gas disks around young stars and evidence of a massive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Credit: NAOJ
Left: The NRAO 140 Foot Telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, is the largest equatorially mounted telescope in the world. It has discovered organic molecules, such as methanol and formaldehyde, in interstellar space and has played an important role in the development of astrochemistry. Credit: NRAO/AUI Right: Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) at La Silla Observatory, ESO. Since 1987, SEST has pioneered the exploration of the southern submillimeter sky with its 15-meter dish. Credit: ESO/C. Madsen
Page 3: Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Credit
Page 6: Artist’s conception of ALMA. Cred
Page 9: 2. Early Radio Astronomy and its Fu
Page 13 and 14: The Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA)
Page 15: ESO-NRAO site-testing containers on
Page 18 and 19: A wide view of the Chajnantor Plate
Page 20: The Licancabur volcano and an icy f
Page 23 and 24: Llama at the edge of the internatio
Page 25 and 26: 3. Building ALMA The construction o
Page 27 and 28: A member of the local communities p
Page 29: Construction of an antenna foundati
Page 32 and 33: Completed AOS building. Credit: ALM
Page 34 and 35: Japanese 7-meter antennas in an ass
Page 36 and 37: Arrival of North American 12-meter
Page 39 and 40: Engineers installing the metallic p
Page 41 and 42: Three North American antennas under
Page 43 and 44: A European antenna handed over to t
Page 45: Inspection of the antenna surface a
Page 48 and 49: Left: Band 9 receiver cartridges de
Page 50 and 51: A technician examining the ALMA cor
Page 54 and 55: An ALMA antenna traveling across th
Page 56 and 57: Panoramic view of the OSF Site Erec
Page 58 and 59: The ALMA gatehouse. The road to the
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Maintenance work on an ALMA antenna
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The receiver laboratory at the OSF
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Commissioning and Science Verificat
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The Moon and the arc of the Milky W
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ALMA’s world at night. Credit: ES
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Science assessors at the ALMA Early
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5. ALMA’s View of the Universe De
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Curious spiral spotted by ALMA arou
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ALMA sees clouds of gas hidden by t
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ALMA through the years 1980s - 1990
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