Radiotelescope antennas of the ALMA ( Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) project, in the Chajnantor plateau, Atacama desert, some 1500 kilometers north of Santiago, on October 1, 2011. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the world’s largest radiotelescope, located in the mountains of northern Chile, has received its finishing touches. The device, whose completion has occasioned... 

The ALMA radio telescope has taken its first photograph of the Antennae Galaxies from the observatory in Chile (pictured) telescope. Click on the image to enlarge it. To boldly show: World’s most expensive telescope takes first pictures of deepest space in quest for more knowledge of outer universe. This is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3billion radio telescope sitting high...