A rare snowstorm in Atacama Desert in Chile impacts the operations of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

In late June 2025, a rare weather event disrupted operations in one of the most arid regions on Earth. A snowstorm swept across northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, temporarily shutting down the Atacama ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

Although this controversy might be specific to Chile, home to 40 percent of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, the project ...

When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and submillimeter space observatory in the 1990s, they knew they couldn't just build it ...

A collaboration between Fraunhofer and the Max Planck Society supplies the European Southern Observatory with the world's ...

Engineers from MPIfR and Fraunhofer IAF enhance ALMA's capabilities with new low-noise amplifiers, enabling unprecedented ...

Fraunhofer IAF and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have provided 145 high-performance low-noise amplifiers for ...

Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the molecular gas content of two galaxies involved in a cosmic collision. The one on the right hosts a quasar –– a ...