The high desert of Chile will soon be witnessing the largest ground-based astronomy project on its soil. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) costs $1 billion. Find how things wee like 1 billion years after the Big Bang. This project will look far back in time - which may help scientist persue with lots of unknown facts and space phenomenons.



The project is scheduled to be completed around 2012. With this array, the astronomers will be able to examine formation of not only planets and stars, but also early galaxies and galaxy clusters. It can also be used for detecting organic and other space molecules.



An at least 50 40-foot-wide radio antennae will be used to built ALMA. To produce an image with a much larger telescope resolution, the signals each antenna will be receiving will be coordinated.



Via: Times Dispatch