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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 rise. Their…

24 Jan 2024 - By Brian Koberlein

Hidden Giants

University of the West Indies student Brianna Sampson finds than more than a thousand Giant Radio Galaxies could be hidden in the data of a radio sky survey.

9 Jan 2024 - By Brian Koberlein

Here There Be DRAGNs

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

9 Jan 2024 - By Brian Koberlein

Astronomy is Metal

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

8 Jan 2024 - By Brian Koberlein

Two For One

When a distant quasar was found to have two sources, University of Washington student Anaïs Martin wanted to find out why.

8 Jan 2024 - By Brian Koberlein

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 these…

1 Nov 2023 - By Brian Koberlein

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