Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

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IRAM is an international research institute and Europe’s leading center for radio astronomy at millimeter wavelengths. It's mission is to explore the universe, study its origins and its evolution with two of the most advanced radio astronomy facilities in the world: the NOEMA observatory in the French Alps and the 30-meter telescope in the Spanish Sierra Nevada.

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Located at an altitude of 2,500 metres on the Bure plateau in the Alps, the Noema international observatory is the most powerful radio telescope in the northern hemisphere. Thanks to the data collected by its twelve antennas pointed in the same direction, astronomers can study the disks of gas and dust that precede the birth of stars and their planets.

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NOEMA (NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array) is the most powerful millimetre radio telescope in the northern hemisphere. Located on the Bure plateau, in the Hautes-Alpes, the observatory will eventually consist of 12 antennae that will form a single large radio telescope capable of revealing the invisible thanks to interferometry. Equipped with a new generation of receivers and electronics, these antennas will be able to capture the coldest light emitted by the universe, around 250°C. The…

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