Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video shows footage from an interview with Ashley Barnes, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, on the ACES research. ACES, which stands for ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey, is a large observation program with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) focusing on the very central region (the CMZ or central molecular zone) of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Credit: ESO