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This lovely equirectangular panorama captures the ALMA telescope as dusk begins to fall, turning the sky a into a bright palette of colour. ALMA may not look like a single telescope, but this battalion of high-precision antennas work together to observe the coolest components of the universe. Credit: P. Horálek/ESO
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The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO) is a joint project of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), under the auspices of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan.

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