The mystery of the universe by the "vision" of the world's highest mountains of the Andes.

Main part of the "Alma telescope" that the construction was completed in 5000 m altitude Atacama highlands of Chile astronomers around the world to mobilize. Radio telescope that the mystery of the universe "vision" of the world's best from the Andes mountains (13 midnight Japan time) morning of April 13, the opening ceremony has been held to commemorate the beginning of full-scale operation.
Alma telescope, major European countries and Japan and the United States was built over 100 billion yen. In addition to exploring the "material of life" such as amino acids floating in the space, we aim to elucidate the mechanism of how the planets and galaxies was built from several hundreds of million years after the birth of the universe was born.
(The same early morning of July 13) afternoon of June 12, shook his head and showed it all together in the same direction as the white antenna published in the national press that dish lined field, compact also "performance". I feel like a full-fledged start-up has been proven partly running. It took quite a time. By all means, I hope the results elucidate the mechanism of the birth of the universe as it progresses.


世界の天文学者が結集して南米チリの標高５０００メートルのアタカマ高地に建設した「アルマ望遠鏡」の主要部が完成した。アンデス山中から世界最高の“視力”により宇宙の謎に迫る電波望遠鏡で、本格運用の始まりを記念して１３日午前（日本時間１３日深夜）、開所式が執り行われる。
　アルマ望遠鏡は、日米と欧州主要国が１０００億円かけて建設した。宇宙空間を漂うアミノ酸など「生命の材料」を探索するほか、宇宙誕生から数億年後に銀河がつくられた様子や惑星が生まれる仕組みの解明を目指す。
　１２日午後（同１３日未明）には、パラボラアンテナが立ち並ぶ現場を各国の報道陣に公開、密集した白いアンテナが一斉に同じ方向に首を振る“パフォーマンス”も見せた。部分的には稼動して実績をあげてきていますが本格的な始動といった感じですね。結構な時間かかりましたね。ぜひ、宇宙誕生の仕組みの解明が進むような実績を期待したいですね。