JAO Summer Internships 2026: young talent in action
From OSF and SCO, the 24 interns who participated in ALMA's summer program presented their projects and progress in a collaborative session with their supervisors. The event provided an opportunity to share lessons learned, receive feedback, and conclude an experience marked by curiosity, teamwork, and the contribution of new...
Do you Recommend?: Marcelo Miranda
With more than 17 years working for our observatory, Marcelo Miranda cannot hide his excitement at having been awarded the “Excellence” award, from our Fundamental Statements. “I am very happy and grateful to have been recognized for my work at ALMA”.Our Instrumentation Technician fondly remembers all...
Meet Elizabeth Cortés, the first woman engineer at IMG
“I didn't know I was going to be a Civil Mechanical Engineer”, says Elizabeth Cortés, our Mechanical Engineer, while checking machines and antennas at OSF and AOS. Once graduated, she worked in engineering consulting firms, in industries such as metallurgy and mining, until she arrived at...
Art for ALMA: our Paint & Talk workshops at SCO
Art has always been present in Priscilla's life. She fondly remembers her sister painting in oils and taking pictures, and her mother winning all the flower arrangement contests and drawing costume designs. That's why, when she passed by the Alhambra Palace in 2010 and saw the...
“Be Safe”: our cybersecurity program
On our desktops, mobile devices, at work or at home. There are multiple risks of becoming a victim of a scam or intrusion on the Internet. We learned about it first-hand when we suffered the cyber-attack on the observatory in October 2022. To be more prepared,...
Breaking records: how we surpassed 4,000 hours of observations
To know our cosmic origins, we must observe as many hours as possible of the research selected for each cycle. That's why we are so pleased to have surpassed 4,000 hours during this Cycle 10. The highest number ever observed since we began operations. Our previous...
Bill Dent says goodbye to ALMA: “I came for 3 years and stayed for 15”
It was early morning in the control room at OSF. Bill Dent was alone with an operator and typing away when the information on his screen began to slow to a complete stop. Unable to communicate with the antennas, they called the engineers to no success....