A galactic rejuvenation
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A galactic rejuvenation

28 October, 2024

Something odd is happening in NGC 1386, a spiral galaxy located 53 million light-years away in Eridanus's constellation. This Picture combines data from the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) and the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. When astronomers observed the central regions of this galaxy, they found new stars...
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Operation Support Facility (OSF)

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Array Operation Site (AOS)

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Santiago Central Offices (SCO)

Santiago, Chile

  • Operations Support Facility (OSF)

    • Operations Support Facility (OSF)
    • Operations Support Facility (OSF)
    • Operations Support Facility (OSF)
    The ALMA Operations Support Facility, at an altitude of 2900 metres in the Chilean Andes, serves as the focal point for most of the observatory activities, hosting the antenna control room, laboratories and offices. Address: Kilómetro 121, Carretera CH 23, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Phone: +56 2 2467 6416

  • Array Operation Site (AOS)

    • Array Operation Site (AOS)
    • Array Operation Site (AOS)
    • Array Operation Site (AOS)
    The ALMA Array Operations Site, at an altitude of 5000 metres in the Chilean Andes, houses the ALMA antennas and the correlator, the fastest data processing system ever used at an astronomical site. Coordinates: 23° 1′ 23.5″ S, 67° 45′ 16.7″ W

  • Santiago Central Offices (SCO)

    • Santiago Central Offices (SCO)
    • Santiago Central Offices (SCO)
    • Santiago Central Offices (SCO)
    The ALMA headquarters, located in Vitacura district in Santiago of Chile, houses the Director’s Office and its associated functional units, as well as astronomers, technicians and administrative staff, and the ALMA archive. Address: Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura , Santiago, Chile Phone: +56 2 2467 6100

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ALMA, a worldwide collaboration

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) -the largest astronomical project in existence- is a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed of 66 high precision antennas located on the Chajnantor Plateau, 5000 meters altitude in northern Chile. ALMA is an international partnership of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan, together with NRC (Canada), NSTC and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.