Anemo helps the search for aliens through the EU Observatory in Chile

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At an altitude of 5000 meters in a dry environment they have placed 66 antenna's that observe the coldiest places in the universe. Anemo is proud it delivered Turnlock parts to them to help them observe the coldest places in the universe.  In fact invisible for us, because the wave length of this light is in the millimeter range, it is light between infrared and radio waves.  The light originates from places where the temperature is only a few tenths of degrees higher then absolute zero.  In fact it's not really that we will discover aliens, but we'll get a better insight in the earliest and most distant galaxies where new stars are born.  Often these regions of the universe are dark and obscured in visible light, but they shine brightly in the millimetre and submillimetre part of the spectrum.

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You could ask yourself why on earth do they build this at that altitutude in Chile, well that's an easy to answer: the millimeter waves are easily absorbed by water in the atmosphere.  The higher you can get the dryer it gets.  The ALMA site, some 50 km east of San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile, is in one of the driest places on Earth. Astronomers find unsurpassed conditions for observing, but they must operate a frontier observatory under very difficult conditions. 

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The ALMA telescope sees 10 times better then the Hubble

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