We closed a successful 2025 with celebrations at the OSF and the Santiago office
This year was particularly special for ALMA: we exceeded 4,300 hours of observation, we were able to observe the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, we monitored stellar activity in Proxima and Alpha Centauri, while continuing to make progress on the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU). To bid farewell to the year and...
Searching for images in Virginia
Data is the foundation of our work at ALMA. It's what we look for in the sky and what we do best with scientists from around the world. That information is key to generating images that we can share with the public. That's why in June...
International ALMA: Our colleagues tell how they celebrate their day in Canada, USA and Venezuela
Our observatory is located in Chile, but people from all over the world make up its team. That's why we want to commemorate the national holidays of the 17 nationalities that make up our multiculturalism. And we started in July with Canada Day by talking to...
Engineers at heart
Our observatory has all kinds of professionals that make it a unique place in the world. But above all we have engineers... and women engineers! On the occasion of Women in Engineering Day, celebrated last June 23, we want to give special recognition to those women...
Rising to the small screen
For the past couple of years, ALMA's Education and Public Outreach (EPO) team, together with Vectorial Production Company (author of "The Rebirth of a Giant"), has been working on the series "En Busca de Nuestros Orígenes" (In Search of Our Origins), a documentary-style production that tells...
ALMA Fathers
When you have children everything is different, even if our realities are different. "I never had a role as a father growing up, but I always knew that being a father I was going to give my best. Being a father is a gift from God...
Our first decade: Darío Hernández
When Darío arrived in January 2012, things were very different.The observatory was in its construction phase, and it barely had 30 antennas. Our current residence did not yet exist, so the rooms were located in the old camp. Even the casino was getting small. "There were...