The Antennae Galaxies, as seen by ALMA

27 September, 2013 / Read time: 1 minute

In this movie, we zoom into the composite image of the Antennae Galaxies to see the detail to which the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been able to see the star-forming regions of the southern galaxy of this colliding pair. We remove radio data and then turn off and on the ALMA data to show how millimeter/submillimeter views complement those of optical telescopes.

CREDIT:(NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); HST (NASA, ESA, and B. Whitmore, (STScI)); J. Hibbard, (NRAO/AUI/NSF); NOAO/AURA/NSF.