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The first decade of the largest telescope in the world

The ALMA radio telescope, the largest in the world, located 5,000 meters above sea level in the Atacama Desert (Chile), celebrated its tenth anniversary.

It revealed numerous sky secrets during this time, such as the first photograph of a black hole.

On a dry, brown plateau surrounded by rocky peaks, dozens of white, metallic giants punctuate the landscape, moving their huge, circular heads in different directions across the sky.

They are the 66 antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the largest telescope in the world.

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