The NRAO NINE (National and International Non-traditional Exchange) program and Office of Diversity and Inclusion aim to train students…
My two-year-old loves radio telescopes. My friends are convinced that I trained my son Günther to point to and…
Dr. Kristina Nyland was a postdoctoral research associate at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 2015 to 2018. She has…
The NRAO-led National and International Non-Traditional Exchange (NINE) Program, part of the NRAO Office of Diversity and Inclusion, trains…
Astronomy has shown us striking images of galaxies, star clusters, and vast glowing nebula. But for many scientists, that…
Last June 2018, a group of astronomy educators, under the auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Astronomy in Chile…
Radio astronomy and amateur radio have a close historical connection, and one theme of the hamfest VLA tour is…
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Extragalactic Jets
This image of a distant radio galaxy is part of the Very Large Array Sky Survey – a seven-year campaign using the VLA to map eighty percent of the sky from New Mexico and generate a database of approximately 10 million radio sources. The image depicts massive radio jets blasting away from a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, which is seen as a faint dot between the two jets. The VLA Sky Survey continues to generate thousands of images at unprecedented resolution, revealing the details and stunning structure of extragalactic jets. If you want to look up where on the sky this image resides, the galaxy’s coordinates are: 14h 54m 27.8s, -36deg 39m 58.0s (J2000).
NRAO Making Waves
Announcements and Achievements
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AUI/NRAO Representative in Chile to Join Advisory Council of ComunidadMujer
Paulina Bocaz, the AUI Representative and NRAO Assistant Director for Chile, has been selected to join the Advisory Council of “ComunidadMujer.”
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Chilean Senate Distinguishes ALMA For 1st Image of Black Hole
The Senate of Chile recognized ALMA for its role in obtaining the first image of a black hole as part of the Event Horizon Telescope.
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ALMA Reaches 1000 Published Papers
An important milestone was reached with the publication of the 1000th peer-reviewed paper using ALMA data.
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Breakthrough in Detection Technology at Axion Dark Matter Experiment
NRAO/CDL technology part of the hunt for the dark matter particle at the Axion Dark Matter Experiment.
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.
