ESOcast: ALMA Opens Its Eyes

S1 E36
2011

The most complex ground-based astronomy observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope still under construction, reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared telescopes. Thousands of scientists from around the world competed to be the first few researchers to explore some of the darkest, coldest, furthest, and most hidden secrets of the cosmos with this new astronomical tool.

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E1

James Bond at Paranal

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E2

Unprecedented 16-year long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole

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E3

The ALMA observatory gets its first 'eye'

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E4

24 hours in the life of an ESO astronomer

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E5

ESO's First Observatory Celebrates 40th Anniversary

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E6

Lightest Exoplanet Found

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E8

Behind every great astronomer stands a great engineer

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E9

Celestial Tango Makes for a Gorgeous Nebula

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E10

GigaGalaxy Zoom: The Sky, from the Eye to the Telescope

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E11

New Exoplanets Found

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E12

VISTA: A Pioneering New Survey Telescope Starts Work

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E13

A sharper view of the Universe with the VLT Interferometer

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E14

Orion in a New Light

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E15

Recoating a Giant VLT Mirror

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E16

E-ELT Site Chosen

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E17

Constructing ALMA — The World's Largest Observatory

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E18

Exoplanet Caught on the Move

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E19

Photographers of the Night

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E20

Richest planetary system discovered

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E21

The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)

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E22

The most distant galaxy ever measured

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E23

A telescope's wire to the world

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E24

First planet of extragalactic origin

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E25

Chasing Gamma Ray Bursts at Top Speed: The VLT’s Rapid Response Mode

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E26

Life and Leisure at Paranal

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E27

An ESO Astronomer at Work

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E28

ESO Hidden Treasures Competition

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E29

Running a Desert Town

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E30

First Images from the VLT Survey Telescope -- VST and 268 megapixel OmegaCAM start work

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E31

Pandora's Cluster

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E32

Most Distant Quasar Found

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E33

Under Chilean Skies

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E34

How To Stop a Star's Twinkle - The astronomy podcast exploring the cosmic frontier with Dr J

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E35

Fifty New Exoplanets

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E36

ALMA Opens Its Eyes

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E37

Full-size Mock-up of World's Largest Telescope Mirror Built at ESO's Open House Day

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E38

Faraway Eris is Pluto’s twin

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E39

A Black Hole’s Dinner is Fast Approaching

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E40

When Speed Matters - Discovery of the Accelerating Universe Wins 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics

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E41

Going South - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 1

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E42

Looking Up - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 2

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E43

Seeing Sharp - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 3

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E44

Special: Changing Views -- Special 50th anniversary episode #4

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E45

Reaching Out - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 5

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E46

Catching Light - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 6

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E47

Finding Life - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 7

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E48

Building Big — Special 50th Anniversary Episode 8

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E49

On Air – Behind the Scenes of A Day in The Life of ESO

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E50

Chile Chill 1

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E51

All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer

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