An astrophysicist from the South Okanagan is about to embark on a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity managing the world's largest telescope in Chile. Sean Dougherty runs the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Kaleden, B.C., but on Monday will leave for Chile to become the director of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory. ALMA is a state-of-the-art telescope located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It is the largest ground-based astronomical project in existence and aims to study some of the furthest galaxies in the universe. ALMA, la película — En busca de nuestros orígenes cósmicos from ALMA Observatory on Vimeo.

Source: CBC News February 19, 2018 01:41 UTC