Radio Astronomy – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

ThunderBarb Soars for NSF NRAO

“ThunderBarb,” that’s the callsign my staff at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) jokingly…

Posted on June 7, 2023June 7, 2023 | By Brian Koberlein

Astrophysical masers are microwave lasers that occur naturally in space. They are found in regions of gas that have…

Posted on June 7, 2023June 7, 2023 | By Brian Koberlein

The Jets and OUtflows Revealing the Nature and Evolutions of massive YSOs (JOURNEY) Project aims to better understand High…

Posted on June 6, 2023June 7, 2023 | By Brian Koberlein

The birth of a star begins with the collapse of cold molecular gas under its gravitational weight. But once…

Posted on June 11, 2021July 1, 2021 | By Jacob White

This article was originally published in Medium on March 9, 2021. Some changes have been made to the original…

Posted on March 21, 2021March 22, 2021 | By Sam Watchman

In November 2020, Oscar Le, a high school teacher from Northern Virginia, contacted us on behalf of one of…

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	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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