Lorenzo Martínez-Conde bids farewell to ALMA: “Study and dream more”
This month, ALMA says goodbye to a beloved colleague: Lorenzo Martínez-Conde, who closes an important chapter in his life after years of dedication, learning, and service at the observatory. Lorenzo recalls with particular emotion the inauguration of ALMA, a milestone he felt part of after working on the construction...
“This wonderful machine changed the world, producing the kind of ‘transformational science’ it was designed for”
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...
Unforgettable celebrations of these first 10 years
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 observatory had a lot of mystique and we were all more than proud to work here”
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,...
“I have seen ALMA grow from a project to an observatory”
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...
A new face at ALMA: meet Catalina Margulis
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...
The guardians of the network
It has been almost four months since we suffered a cyber-attack on our computer system. An emergency that has undoubtedly had an impact on our operations. However, we have now recovered from that event. After 48 days of hard work by our IT team, on December...