A detour to the west would take you to the Very Large Array, one of the world's
greatest radio observatories and a monument to a starkly different application of World War II — derived technology.
«So, not only does ALMA let us identify individual molecular species in the coma, it also gives us the ability to map their locations with
great sensitivity,» said Anthony Remijan, a scientist with the National
Radio Astronomy
Observatory, one of the organizations that operates ALMA, and a co-author of the study.