Most Complex Observatory Releases First Image

[AlasPDC]

La humanidad es más compleja de radio-telescopio, ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) capturó esta imagen de las galaxias Antena colisión. Sólo 22 de 66 antenas de ALMA planeado se construyen, el conjunto contará con 16 kilómetros de la meseta alta de Chile... QUE PASARÁ CUANDO ESTEN LAS 66 ANTENAS LISTAS?... SERÁ ESA FECHA, LA DE LOS MAYAS... LA QUE SE SABRÁ TODA LA VERDAD???

[bryangrossman]

fantastic!!! 

[Zurround100]

how much will the total cost be? I am guessing several billion dollars.

[srbenda888]

@Zurround100 it is worth every dollar USA and world should spend more money in space and stop investing money in building weapons. SPACE is our future finale frontier.

[Zurround100]

@srbenda888 I AGREE I am just CURIOUS. It really irritates me that people complain that this is a waste of money when they should be complaining about multitrillion dollar wars, and "bailouts" of corrupt banks, and the "war on drugs" and the 9 billion dollars lost on a platform in Iraq. Our world totally throws away TRILLIONS of dollars and people whine about using a few BILLION to explore the universe? Those people are IDIOTS. You sure do not see brilliant scientists complaining.

[Zurround100]

@srbenda888 I AGREE, I was never complaining about the price just CURIOUS. A billion dollars is only one thousandth of a trillion dollars and I think instead of the wars that cost trillions we should spend TRILLIONS on science, If Alma can be made with billions imagine a scientific endeavor a thousand times more expensive! We could probably develop warp drive or actually find alien races.

[m1ndbender3]

This is my 3rd time watching this video today. So amazing...

[gogoleilei]

isn't it better, if we can build sth inside our mind, or sth that can enable us to see what's happening within ourselves aside than faraway universe?

[VideoFromSpace]

@gogoleilei That Universe isn't so far away. You are the Universe. There's just a lot more to you than you realized.

[zassounotsukushi]

I'm confused. How could so many dishes be working together to be an astronomical interferometer? I thought that for an interferometer you had to reflect a photon directly into another possible path for that photon, which seems to be violated by the fact that each dish has its own focal point. How is a big computer going to help put that puzzle together?

[1empathy]

@zassounotsukushi I don't normally recommend wikipedia but check out the entry on interferometry. The ALMA array will be able to use it's size to measure time delays in the (relatively ) long wavelength signals and recombine them to emphasise salient features.

[ttristann]

@zassounotsukushi stfu noob

[romygirl60]

Thanks for that great upload!