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Close ✕Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
The sixty-six-antenna millimetre and submillimetre array on the Llano de Chajnantor in northern Chile, at about five thousand metres, where the air is dry enough for observations at 1.3…
-23.0, -67.8 · approximate · inaugurated 2013; phased for VLBI from the mid-2010s
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- member of Event Horizon Telescope — Phased into a single very large effective dish, ALMA contributes the bulk of the array's sensitivity and makes the longest baselines usable.
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