Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2002
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The Messenger, No. 107, p. 14 - 18 (March 2002)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Chilean Astronomy
Scientific paper
Chile is becoming the astronomical capital of the world. The Atacama desert encompasses the best locations on Earth to build astronomical observatories. Paranal, Las Campanas, Tololo, Pachón, and La Silla are well-known places that contain top-quality optical astronomical facilities open to Chilean astronomers. In the last few years a new generation of astronomical facilities, the mega-telescopes, have been constructed in those sites: VLT, Magellan, and Gemini. In addition, there will be near San Pedro de Atacama at a height of 5000 m, the most powerful radio synthesis telescope of the world: the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA). This telescope will open up a new, unexplored, window of the electromagnetic spectrum for astrophysical studies. It will operate in an spectral range where clouds of cold gas which are the placental material of mostly every object we know in the universe, have their characteristic spectral signatures.
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