File:The Milky Way and the location of its central black hole as viewed from the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (eso2208-eht-mwc).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionThe Milky Way and the location of its central black hole as viewed from the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (eso2208-eht-mwc).jpg |
English: This image shows the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) looking up at the Milky Way as well as the location of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our galactic centre. Highlighted in the box is the image of Sagittarius A* taken by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. Located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, ALMA is the most sensitive of all the observatories in the EHT array, and ESO is a co-owner of ALMA on behalf of its European Member States. |
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Date | 12 May 2022, 15:07 (upload date) | ||
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Author | ESO/José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org), EHT Collaboration | ||
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ISO speed rating | 2,500 |
Credit/Provider | ESO/José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org), EHT Collaboration |
Source | European Southern Observatory |
Online copyright statement | josefrancisco.org |
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Author | President, José Francisco Salgado PhD |
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City shown | San Pedro de Atacama |
Date and time of data generation | 15:07, 12 May 2022 |
JPEG file comment | Four of the first ALMA antennas at the Array Operations Site (AOS), located at 5000 metres altitude on the Chajnantor plateau, in the II Region of Chile. Three of them — those which are pointing in the same direction — are being tested together as part of the ongoing Commissioning and Science Verification process. Across the image in the background is the impressive plane of the Milky Way, our own galaxy, here seen looking toward the centre. The centre of our galaxy is visible as a yellowish bulge crossed by dark lanes. The dark lanes are huge clouds of interstellar dust that lie in the disc of the galaxy. While opaque in visible light, they are transparent at longer wavelengths, such as the millimetre and submillimetre radiation detected by ALMA. ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is the largest astronomical project in existence and is a truly global partnership between the scientific communities of East Asia, Europe and North America with Chile. ESO is the European partner in ALMA. |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 10:18, 25 March 2022 |
Serial number of camera | 2040534 |
Lens used | 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8 |
Date and time of digitizing | 00:54, 17 June 2010 |
Date metadata was last modified | 11:18, 25 March 2022 |
Rating (out of 5) | 1 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:65270D3ADD20681192B0E56F88C5F613 |
Contact information | jf@josefrancisco.org
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Keywords | Milky Way |
Country shown | Chile |
Province or state shown | Provincia de El Loa |
Code for country shown | CL |
Sublocation of city shown | Llano de Chajnantor Observatory |
IIM version | 4 |