Centered in this wide image is the ALMA, or Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Designed to form a single large telescope out of several antennas, the ALMA uses dishes up to twelve meters wide to observer wavelengths "over 1,000 times longer than visible light." The ALMA is located in the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes, at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, in a location which makes it ideally dry and low pressured. The ALMA provides an impressive glimpse into the future of astronomical observation.
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