Latest Updates on COVID-19 Measures from NRAO and Operational Status 
2020 probably won’t go down as anyone’s favorite year, but we still want to celebrate all of the cool (radio) science we did.
Explore the fascinating world of radio astronomy with us! Discover the tools scientists use to observe radio waves with…
Every year, we partner with Green Bank Observatory to welcome more than 30 students from around the country into…
The NRAO NINE program mission is to build a pipeline of talent within the radio astronomy field, and within under-represented communities.
Antenna climb at the VLA, left to right: Filipe Lizana, Camilla Pérez, Simón Contreras, Sonia Duffau.
2019 has been a spectacular year of discovery for all of astronomy, and radio astronomy in particular. The public got…
Long, long ago… or if you’re an astronomer, far, far away… STARS EMIT LIGHT Stars, galaxies, even dust and complex…
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Giant Antenna in Nancay, France
In Nancay, France looms this enormous radio telescope. This portion of it is a section of a sphere that reflects the radio waves to a focus off to the left. It observes supernova remnants, star-forming regions, pulsars -- really, anything that a more familiar dish-shaped radio telescope can see. In 1973, this telescope worked with our 140-foot telescope to observe the chemistry of Comet Kohoutek 1973 XII. They discovered OH, hydroxide, in the comet's gaseous envelope.
NRAO Making Waves
Announcements and Achievements
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ALMA Takes First Step Toward Return to Service
The process of returning ALMA to operational status has begun by powering up the first few antennas for the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown in March of 2021.
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NRAO and GBO Saddened at Loss of Arecibo Telescope
NRAO and GBO are saddened at the announcement of the decommissioning of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico, which has a long and distinguished history of scientific accomplishment.
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AAS Names NRAO Astronomer as Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer
NRAO astronomer Paul B. Demorest has been selected to give the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture at the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, to be held virtually, on 11 January 2021.
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NRAO Image Contest Celebrates VLA 40th Anniversary
To help celebrate the VLA’s 40th anniversary, the National Radio Astronomy is conducting an image contest, and offering cash prizes for visually compelling works that incorporate radio observational data from the VLA.
Neither a hole nor really black, a stellar black hole is actually the superdense remains of a very big star that imploded, violently collapsing in on itself, during a supernova.
