"It is always nice to receive a formal recognition, but it is even more emotional to see the happiness of several of my colleagues when they noticed that I had been awarded", says Jonathan Antognini, last winner of our Fundamental Statements award, in the Collaboration category. After 8 years at ALMA as Integration & Testing Lead, Jonathan was honored...
It was no ordinary stone. That monolith in Chajnantor was engraved with some kind of moons that looked like an observatory, and it said "ALMA - AOS Technical Building". It was September 2006, and Giorgio Siringo -who had arrived two years earlier to put "eyes" on the APEX radio telescope from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in...
During March we celebrated our first decade of ALMA operations. Thus, the OSF and AOS became the first venues for celebrations recognizing our immense work over the last 10 years to enable astronomical research worldwide. Click on the pictures to relive the celebrations!We will keep updating the gallery with more...
For Liza, there was no better destination. Her passion for processing data and obtaining wonderful images of objects in the Universe made our observatory the ideal place to work. It was February 2012, and Liza Videla, our Science Archive Content Manager had just arrived at ALMA, albeit under very different conditions than she is now."All my work was done...
That day, all expectations were set at the port of Antofagasta. The first ALMA antenna had finally arrived in our hands and it was necessary to accompany its transfer to the Vertex hangar at OSF. The television and print media of that October 2007 were in charge of recording that milestone that, almost 16 years later, Héctor Ceballos, our...
It was like any other summer day at the beach. The family was having lunch in their apartment, in a dining room overlooking the terrace. They began to talk about the universe, and as the minutes passed, about the existence of aliens and UFOs that could be living among us. Catalina was only ten years old and does not...