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World’s Largest Ground-Based Radio Telescope
December 12, 2012 | National Science Foundation

High in the Atacama Desert of Chile, ALMA, the world’s largest ground-based radio telescope, can detect hidden gases that might hold the key to star and planetary formation.


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