{"id":90693,"date":"2026-03-02T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=90693"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:55:19","slug":"alma-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alma-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"ALMA Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>ALMA Telescope Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way and unveiled a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope..<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About ALMA Telescope<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ALMA) is a <\/span><b>radio telescope<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in the <\/span><b>Atacama Desert in Chile.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>state-of-the-art radio-telescope<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that studies <\/span><b>celestial objects at millimetre<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>submillimetre wavelengths.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been fully functional since 2013.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was designed, planned and constructed by the US\u2019s <\/span><b>National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>National Astronomical Observatory of Japan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NAOJ) and the <\/span><b>European Southern Observatory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ESO).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Properties of ALMA Telescope<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also has <\/span><b>extraordinary sensitivity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which allows it to detect even extremely faint radio signals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of <\/span><b>66 high-precision antennas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, spread over a <\/span><b>distance of up to 16 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/atacama-desert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atacama Desert<\/a><\/strong> of northern Chile.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These antennas can be moved closer together or farther apart for different perspectives \u2013 like the zoom lens of a camera.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Also Read<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alma-telescope-soon-it-will-get-a-new-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\">ALMA Telescope: Soon it will get a \u2018new brain\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Major Discoveries of ALMA Telescope<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2013 it discovered <\/span><b>starburst galaxies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> earlier in the universe\u2019s history than they were previously thought to have existed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provided detailed images of the <\/span><b>protoplanetary disc surrounding HL Tauri<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 a very young T Tauri star in the constellation Taurus, approximately 450 light years from Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It helped scientists observe a <\/span><b>phenomenon known as the Einstein ring.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>The Einstein ring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> occurs when light from a galaxy or star passes by a massive object en route to the Earth, in extraordinary detail.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-largest-image-kind-hidden-chemistry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phy.Org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALMA Telescope is a radio telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. 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