Blogs – Page 2 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Standing at the high site of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is like standing on another world. Sandy gravel…

13 Aug 2019 - By Brian Koberlein

Radio telescopes received the signal that allowed 600 million people to watch Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon.

27 Jun 2019 - By Brian Koberlein

Ruby Payne-Scott was born on May 28, 1912 in Grafton, New South Wales. She began her college career at…

28 May 2019 - By Nan Janney

Since the 1930s, when Karl Jansky detected the first radio signals from space, astronomers have used radio telescopes to…

9 May 2019 - By Amy Kimball

The NRAO NINE (National and International Non-traditional Exchange) program and Office of Diversity and Inclusion aim to train students…

21 Mar 2019 - By Brian Kent

My two-year-old loves radio telescopes. My friends are convinced that I trained my son Günther to point to and…

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
	Founded in 1956, the NRAO provides state-of-the-art radio telescope facilities for use by the international scientific community. NRAO telescopes are open to all astronomers regardless of institutional or national affiliation. Observing time on NRAO telescopes is available on a competitive basis to qualified scientists after evaluation of research proposals on the basis of scientific merit, the capability of the instruments to do the work, and the availability of the telescope during the requested time. NRAO also provides both formal and informal programs in education and public outreach for teachers, students, the general public, and the media.
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