Huge Chilean radio telescope to seek new planets, galaxies
TOKYO, Japan - A graphics released April 4 by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) shows a high-altitude radio telescope which scientists from Japan, Europe and North America agreed to build in Chile. The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), the largest of its kind in the world, will mainly consist of 64 moveable 12-meter-diameter dishes distributed in a circle 10 kilometers in diameter.
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