16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
... one square kilometre (or 1 million square metres). For comparison, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, which is already revolutionising areas of astronomy, has around 66 operational antennas and a total collecting area...
10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
... of all of those involved – and the list of involved is an impressive one. The telescopes contributing to this result were ALMA, APEX, the IRAM 30-meter telescope, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso...
06 April 2020
Planets can form second atmospheres rich in CO, new study shows
... could be narrowed down further using the high spatial resolution of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to help pinpoint the planet location. *A Hill sphere is the radius of a sphere within which smaller bodies would...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
.... “Ultimately, a solution could come from revisiting Venus for in situ measurements..,” they add. ESO astronomer and ALMA European Operations Manager Leonardo Testi, who did not participate in the new study, says: “The non...
28 October 2020
Unexpected molecule found in Titan's atmosphere
... Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Connor, who led the search using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile says when he realised he was looking at cyclopropenylidene, "my first thought was, ‘well, this is really unexpected...
24 March 2021
For the first time, astronomers image magnetic fields around M87 black hole
...) – a huge virtual telescope which links together existing facilities such as the Atacama Large millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), the Greenland Telescope (GLT) and the South Pole Telescope (SPT), to name just a few, to create a fundamentally...
