First Image Released by Alma Telescope Space Wallpaper

ALMA Telescope's First Image
(Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO))

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope array in Chile captured this shot of a combined view of the Antennae Galaxies , which are about 75 million light-years from Earth. This cool space wallpaper reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared telescopes.

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