Super Star Clusters (SSCs) are dense clusters of bright young stars. As they evolve their intense radiation can clear…
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A Scintillating Description of Why Quasars Twinkle. Or, How We Tried to Break the Very Large Array.
One of the great things about being a radio astronomer is that if you have a good idea, and…
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NRAO’s 2020 Astronomy Highlights with Phil Plait
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.
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From Chile to New Mexico: Sister Cities and Observatories
Antenna climb at the VLA, left to right: Filipe Lizana, Camilla Pérez, Simón Contreras, Sonia Duffau.
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Road Tripping
If you take U.S. Highway 60 west out of Socorro, in fifty miles you’ll bump into the Very Large…
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Interference from a Busy Planet
Since the 1930s, when Karl Jansky detected the first radio signals from space, astronomers have used radio telescopes to…