Latest Updates on COVID-19 Measures from NRAO and Operational Status
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…
If you take U.S. Highway 60 west out of Socorro, in fifty miles you’ll bump into the Very Large…
Standing at the high site of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is like standing on another world. Sandy gravel…
Radio telescopes received the signal that allowed 600 million people to watch Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon.
Ruby Payne-Scott was born on May 28, 1912 in Grafton, New South Wales. She began her college career at…
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How to Weigh a Pulsar
Pulses from a neutron star (rear) are slowed as they pass near the foreground white dwarf star. The effect, known as the Shapiro Delay, is the extra time delay light experiences by traveling past a massive object due to general relativistic time dilation. Spinning 317 times per second, this pulsar (PSR J1614-2230) and its companion white dwarf star complete an orbit in just under nine days. The pair, some 3,000 light-years distant, are in an orbit seen almost exactly edge-on from Earth, which gives astronomers the information they need to make a mass measurement.
NRAO Making Waves
Announcements and Achievements
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NRAO Grote Reber Fellow Thankful Cromartie Receives Prestigious Einstein Fellowship
Thankful Cromartie, a NRAO Grote Reber doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia’s Department of Astronomy, has received an Einstein Fellowship under the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP).
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Observatory Cancels Group Tours of Very Large Array and ALMA Public Visits
In order to reduce the risk of possible exposure to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), all group tours of the VLA are cancelled. Visitors will be able to access the visitor center, the outdoor walking tour, and the gift shop.
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Raytheon and the National Science Foundation radio astronomy facilities to detect dusty asteroids in space
Raytheon Company, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Green Bank Observatory entered a cooperative research and development agreement.
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NRAO Jansky Fellow Kazunori Akiyama Receives 2020 ASJ Young Astronomer Award
Kazunori Akiyama, a Jansky Fellow of NRAO at MIT Haystack Observatory, has received the 2020 Young Astronomer Award from the Astronomical Society of Japan for his contributions to the first-ever images of a black hole.
