Astronomers are looking for a new radio telescope made of one massive dish to overcome the limitations of current arrays like ALMA.
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ) in northern Chile is our most powerful radio telescope . But astronomers are hungering for a new radio telescope made of one massive dish. Image Credit: A. Marinkovic/X-Cam/ ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Some parts of the Universe only reveal important details when observed in radio waves .
That explains why we have ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimetre-submillimetre Array, a collection of 7-meter and 12-meter radio telescopes that work together as an interferometer. But, ALMA-type arrays have their limitations, and astronomers know what they need to overcome those limitations.Many astronomical objects emit radio waves. From massive galaxies to individual molecules, radio waves and the observatories that sense them provide insights into these objects in ways that other observatories can’t. But there’s a problem. In order to do radio astronomy with a usable signal-to-noise ratio, astronomers need huge antennae or dishes. That’s why ALMA exists. It’s a collection of dishes working together via interferometry to create a much larger dis
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