The biggest, bestest, and most complicated telescope in all the land just took its first few shots of the cosmos, getting a detailed look at galaxies and gasses that have never been clearly seen before. The ALMA telescope in Chile, otherwise known as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is a joint-venture project backed by Canada, Chile, the EU, Japan, Taiwan and the good ol' US of A. The ALMA telescope is not quite like the visible-light and infrared telescopes predominantly used toady. It uses a whole group of radio telescopes that are linked together, giving it the ability to see much longer wavelengths and thus, deliver unique photos of the universe. The purpose, quoth ALMA, is to "understand how galaxy collisions can trigger the birth of new stars." This may give us a better understanding of what the universe looked like in its infancy. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QpnQW2ZnPv4/
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