The NRAO NINE (National and International Non-traditional Exchange) program and Office of Diversity and Inclusion aim to train students…
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On Young Love (of Radio Telescopes)
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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Where Will the Next-Generation Very Large Array Take Us? To Our Cosmic Origins
Dr. Kristina Nyland was a postdoctoral research associate at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 2015 to 2018. She has…
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How Solar Systems Speak to Us
How do we know what’s going on in protoplanetary disks? Visible light telescopes don’t reveal much, because the thick…
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Science (and Silliness) with the VLA, using MS Paint
The end of the summer can be a stressful time for many scientists. Professors, researchers, and graduate students, returning…
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What’s in that Dusty Gap?
Tiny acorns make giant oak trees. But did you know that entire planets are born from pieces even smaller than…