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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Deep-space dishes dot the desert | Space photo of the day for Oct. 15, 2025

A series of large white radio dishes dot the brown desert with some patches of snow while a large purple mountain looms in the background.

High in Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest and most remote places on Earth, sits the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and its international partners, ALMA is not a single telescope but an array of 66 high-precision antennas that together probe the universe in wavelengths unseen by human eyes.

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