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Milky Way zoomed in Credit: A. Ghizzi Panizza/ESO https://www.eso.org/public/images/_DSC5254_1-CC/
“T he human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.” This sentence, spoken once by Stephen Hawking, subjectively and, one has to admit, very peculiarly defines us and pinpoints our place in space. So, here we are; on the third planet from the local Sun, albeit different, basically contradicted concepts of origin, i.e. how it all began. ALMA 1 , for instance, is the project intended, among other things, to addresses ...