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Powerful ALMA Telescope officially online today

Today (March 13, 2013), the ALMA Telescope in northern Chile will officially go online. ALMA stands for Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub Millimeter Array. And the telescope is very powerful – the most powerful yet constructed according to its builders – perched in Chile’s high desert at an altitude of 16,500 feet, or 5,000 meters.

ALMA will explore places beyond imagination – the distant birthplaces of planets, stars, and galaxies centuries old – to help us understand our place in the cosmos. Astronomers call this new telescope ALMA, which is the Spanish word for soul.

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Denisse van Lamoen of the Chile Olympic archery team carries her country’s flag .

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solstitium:

patriotic day!!

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jaidefinichon:

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hagacomosiestuvieraencasa:

weas-delafafi:

hivecix:

My cousin just got back from Chile and brought back with her one of the GREATEST chips ever. Ramitas. These are salty, cheesy sticks that are crunchy to bite and tase like heaven on earth. There is also just Salty Ramitas, which would be the equivalent to plain potato chips. 

There is no place around where we live that carries these, which is odd since every time we bring some back, everyone that has em ends up liking them. Ramitas should be regularly imported to the U.S. and sold at every grocery/supermarket.

No sabía que las ramitas de queso eran exclusivamente de Chile :O

^ Qué bacan saber esta wea xd yo tampoco sabia xd

Yeah!

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