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World's largest telescope to unravel mysteries of universe opens today in Chile

London, March 13: This is called the  £1billion 'time machine' which could finally reveal mysteries of the universe.Made up of 66 giant antennae which can gather the faintest radio waves from space for processing by







The ALMA telescope will begin working from today.

By collecting radio waves rather than optical light, ALMA can look through the dense dust clouds of deep space

It looks like it belongs in a science fiction film but this ‘time machine' could provide us with the facts about where we came from, reports Daily Mail.

Four of the first ALMA antennas at the Array Operations Site (AOS), located at 5000 metres altitude on the Chajnantor plateau,  is in the II Region of Chile. The full telescope of 66 antenna is set to be switched on today after a decade of construction


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