November 18, 2015

Scheme of ALMA combined with the IRAM and VLBA radio telescopes (Image A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF))

The ALMA radio telescope is currently the world’s most powerful yet in recent months some experiments were carried out that made it even more powerful by working together with other radio telescopes to create a virtual instrument that may have a size similar to that of Earth. This was made possible by combining observations from ALMA with those from other radio telescopes located in other continents.