A piece of equipment shipped from Europe will allow the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile to begin taking data, the Science and Technology Facilities Council has announced.
The antenna joins 15 others, from an eventual total of 66, on the Chajnantor plateau near the Atacama Desert. The completed observatory will simulate a radio telescope of up to 16km in diameter.
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