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Astronomers & Engineers Use a Grid of Computers at a National Scale to Study the Universe 300 Times Faster

The Universe is almost inconceivably vast. So is the amount of data astronomers collect when they study it. This is a challenging process for the scientists and engineers at the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy...
6-Mar-2024 6:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Can Astronomers Use Radar to Spot a Cataclysmic Asteroid?

How does ground-based astronomical radar expand our understanding of the Universe? By allowing us to study our nearby Solar System, and everything in it, in unprecedented detail. Radar can reveal the surface and ancient geology of planets and their...
15-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Astronomers Discover Jupiter-sized Objects Drawn into Each Other’s Orbit

In our most basic understanding of our Solar System, planets are drawn into the orbit of our massive star, the Sun. But what happens to planet-sized objects that don’t have a star? A team of astronomers studying Jupiter-mass binary objects...
13-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Owens Valley: Radio Astronomy in the Land of Sky and Stream

Though far to the west of the St. Croix antenna, the Owens Valley antenna has some similarities, in particular being in a remote location. The high mountains surrounding the valley mean that access to the region is only possible from the south, or...
13-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Learning Shines Brightly at SuperKnova

SuperKnova is a project to provide learning opportunities in radio technology for students in a way that is inclusive and equitable. Originally conceived at the Radio Astronomy Imaging and Analysis Lab (RADIAL), SuperKnova is a collaboration between...
13-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Massive Gas Clouds Escape Center of Milky Way

The Green Bank Telescope has discovered over 250 gaseous clouds being blasted out of the center of the Milky Way into interstellar space. A decade ago, astronomers weren’t aware of this phenomenon. It took years of observations, and some...
10-Jan-2024 11:15 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Astronomers Accidentally Discover Dark Primordial Galaxy

While surveying hydrogen (HI) gas in Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies an astronomer made an unusual discovery.
8-Jan-2024 10:15 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Mystery of Star Formation Revealed by Hearts of Molecular Clouds

An international team of astronomers has revealed mysterious star formation at the far edge of the galaxy M83.
7-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites


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How to Safely View the Eclipse

Are you planning on viewing the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024?  Please make sure you are doing so......
15 Mar 2024

Eclipses and Exoplanets

Transit Method  When a planet passes directly between a star and its observer, it dims the star’...
11 Mar 2024

Learning Shines Brightly at SuperKnova

SuperKnova is a project to provide learning opportunities in radio technology for students in a way that is...
31 Jan 2024

Owens Valley: Radio Astronomy in the Land of Sky and Stream

Three million years ago the fault regions of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains began their thunderous r...
24 Jan 2024

Hidden Giants

University of the West Indies student Brianna Sampson finds than more than a thousand Giant Radio Galaxies ...
09 Jan 2024

Here There Be DRAGNs

University of the West Indies student Kavita Gosine Bissessar hunts for asymmetrical DRAGNs in the VLA Sky ...
09 Jan 2024

Astronomy is Metal

University of Arizona student Swapnaneel Dey looks at the metallicity of interstellar clouds in our galaxy....
08 Jan 2024

Two For One

When a distant quasar was found to have two sources, University of Washington student Anaïs Martin wanted ...
08 Jan 2024

A Molecule, a Telescope, and Everything: A History of ALMA and Millimeter Astronomy

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a simple molecule, just one carbon atom closely bound to one oxygen. Neither of the...
01 Nov 2023

St. Croix: Radio Astronomy in the Caribbean

When the morning sun rises over the lands of the United States, it rises first over St. Croix. Located......
28 Jul 2023

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