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It’s the largest yet in the world insofar as a ground-based observatory is concerned. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) space observatory was inaugurated March 13 in Chile on a desert plateau about 5,000 meters above sea level. A huge telescope 16 kilometers in diameter, ALMA was described by astronomer Gianni Marconi as “the largest observatory that has ever been built.” ALMA’s ultra precise equipment can peer through the clouds and capture the faint glow and gas present in the formation of the first stars, galaxies and planets, and possibly provide answers to questions about the universe.
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