Very Large Array (VLA) – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

NRAO’s 2020 Astronomy Highlights with Phil Plait

Posted on December 28, 2020January 1, 2021 | By Nan Janney

2020 probably won’t go down as anyone’s favorite year, but we still want to celebrate all of the cool (radio) science we did.

Posted on January 19, 2020January 29, 2020 | By Summer Ash

Antenna climb at the VLA, left to right: Filipe Lizana, Camilla Pérez, Simón Contreras, Sonia Duffau.

Posted on August 30, 2019December 4, 2019 | By Nan Janney

If you take U.S. Highway 60 west out of Socorro, in fifty miles you’ll bump into the Very Large…

Posted on May 9, 2019January 17, 2021 | By Amy Kimball

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

Posted on March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 | By Brian Kent

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…

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