The largest space telescope goes into operation

The European Astronomical Authority (ESO) on October 3 announces ALMA - the world's largest telescope, can observe the universe from dust and gas particles that form stars and planets to the Radiation left over in the Big Bang, was officially put into operation, marking a great milestone in the history of science as well as all humanity.

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ALMA is a super powerful tool that studies primitive stars formed billions of years ago, installed at a height of 5,000 meters above the sea level on the Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama desert, from Chile's capital Santiago. 1,670km to the north, where scientists liken heaven to astronomical observations.

ESO said that currently, with only 22 already installed in a total of 66 antennas, this radio telescope population has also become the most powerful of the same telescopes. ALMA allows scientists to reach distant galaxies that form the edge of the pillar 10 billion years ago.

ALMA observes cosmic light on wavelengths below millimeters and millimeters, 1,000 times longer than the visible light wavelength, thereby enabling scientists to observe the density of dust and gas clouds, where stars are formed and objects are far away in the original universe.

According to the agency, at the edge of the universe, ALMA will observe cold air at an extremely distant distance a few million years after the Big Bang, in the era that scientists call the dawn of the universe.

The ESO said that the remaining 44 antennas of ALMA will be installed as scheduled by 2013 and all are connected by fiber optic cables. The entire data collected by the antenna system will be combined with the world's fastest supercomputer, making ALMA capable of performing 17,000 billion operations per second.

The project of the ALMA radio telescope super-population project worth an estimated 600 million USD, started construction a decade ago with the coordination of the US, Canada, Japan, Chile and many European countries.

ALMA is used to study the origins of planets, stars, galaxies and the universe with 10 times the image resolution of the Hubble telescope, thanks to the ability to capture an antenna for an advantage over telescopes. optical text about capturing light through a mirror.