ALMA Sees Starbursting Clouds Inside NGC 253
ALMA image of starbursting clouds inside NGC The red region is the lower density CO gas surrounding higher density star-forming regions ...
Read more
VLA Deep Field
Staring at a small patch of sky for more than hours with the ultra-sensitive Karl G Jansky Very Large Array VLA ...
Read more
Magnetic Field of a Spiral Galaxy
An image from the VLA dramatically reveals the huge extent of the magnetic field in green of a spiral galaxy seen ...
Read more
ALMA First Image
In this composite image of the merging cores of the Antennae Galaxies optical white and pink radio blue and millimeter submillimeter ...
Read more
ALMA and the OMC-1
This animation shows the motions of the gas streamers emanating from the OMC- star-forming region in Orion as seen with ALMA ...
Read more
Astronomers Detect Whirlpool Movement in Early Galaxies
ALMA images of rotating galaxies in the early universe shown on a background from the Hubble Space Telescope
Read more
Early Days in the VLA Barn
In the s the Very Large Array was still under construction in the New Mexico desert In this aerial photo a ...
Read more
Double Boomerang
This image of galaxy PKS - located million light years from Earth was made by NRAO scientist William Cotton with the ...
Read more
Artist impression of distant, dusty galaxy
Artist impression of what the distant dusty galaxy called MAMBO- would look like in visible light The galaxy has yet to ...
Read more
Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC 6240
Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC
Read more
VLBI Network of Telescopes Bring Astronomers Closer to Understanding Dark Matter
Gravitational lensing allows astronomers to observe incredibly distant radio sources that cannot be directly detected By observing how the radio emission ...
Read more
NRAO Dedication, 17 October 1957
Dedication of NRAO October From left Richard M Emberson Lloyd V Berkner G A Nay John W Findlay Ned L Ashton ...
Read more
Gazing Upon Our First Telescope
The newly assembled -foot Howard E Tatel telescope in Green Bank West Virginia was the first radio telescope of the NRAO ...
Read more
Stormy Sunset Over ALMA
A break in the clouds during a snowstorm creates a dramatic scene at the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array in northern ...
Read more
Arp 299
This colliding pair of galaxies is a region of vigorous star formation which has been investigated for many years Since four ...
Read more
ALMA Sees Super Stellar Nurseries at Heart of Sculptor Galaxy
What is the recipe for starburst Astronomers studied NGC with ALMA to find out These new ALMA data reveal a diffuse ...
Read more
Construction of First VLBA Antenna
Construction of the first VLBA antenna in Pie Town NM - -
Read more
Aircraft Lights Atop the VLA
In the early days of the Very Large Array each -meter antenna had an aircraft warning light set atop its feed ...
Read more
VLA Gives New Insight Into Galaxy Cluster’s Spectacular “Mini-Halo”
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation s Karl G Jansky Very Large Array VLA have discovered new details that are helping ...
Read more
VLBA Antenna in North Liberty, Iowa
This antenna in North Liberty Iowa is one of radio telescopes that make up the National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy ...
Read more
AGNs Seen at Different Angles
One type of active galactic nuclei AGN -- a supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust -- is ...
Read more
The Magnetic Field of Ser-emb 8
Texture represents the magnetic field orientation in the region surrounding the Ser-emb protostar as measured by ALMA The gray region is ...
Read more
Owens Valley VLBA with Flowers
Desert flowers are abundant around the Owens Valley antenna Credit Jeff Hellerman
Read more
VLBA Pie Town at Sunset
The Sun sets behind the Pie Town New Mexico telescope of the Very Long Baseline Array This -meter dish antenna is ...
Read more
Shells of Exploded Stars
This is a -false color image of the region surrounding the W supernova remnant SNR that is located in our Galaxy ...
Read more
New View of the Whirlpool
This is the most detailed radio image of the Whirlpool Galaxy ever captured The Very Large Array observed this pair of ...
Read more
ALMA Test Facility and the VLA
When this aerial shot of the Very Large Array was taken the ALMA Test Facility was still in place The smaller ...
Read more
First Detection of Aluminium Nuclear Isotope in Space
Composite image of CK Vul the remains of a double-star collision This impact launched radioactive molecules into space as seen in ...
Read more
A VLA Transporter stopped on the tracks
There are only two Antenna Transporters at the Very Large Array that are used to move antennas into new configurations Here ...
Read more
The Triangulum Galaxy in Radio and Optical
Galaxies contain hundreds of billions of stars They often group together in clusters with a history of sharing and tearing their ...
Read more
Anechoic Chamber
Manmade radio signals from wireless devices orbiting satellites spark plugs microwave ovens etc swamp the weak waves we detect from objects ...
Read more
The Artistry of an ALMA Front End
Behind the dish of each ALMA antenna sits one of these Front Ends the chilled coolers that hold the suite of ...
Read more
A Molecular Fountain In Abell 2597
Composite image of the Abell galaxy cluster showing the fountain-like flow of gas powered by the supermassive black hole in the ...
Read more
A Young VLA
The Very Large Array in December of one month after the final and th antenna had been delivered
Read more
Measuring the Distance to the Pleiades
Using the parallax technique astronomers observe object at opposite ends of Earth's orbit around the Sun to precisely measure its distance ...
Read more
What are Emission Lines?
Inside a spectrometer a beam of white light typical incandescent light bulb sunlight etc is broken into its actual wavelengths what ...
Read more
Double Rainbow over the VLA
The Very Large Array may sit in the New Mexico desert but it's not always dry Summer monsoons bring much-needed rains ...
Read more
Maintenance Vehicle that caters to all antenna sizes
The Front End Service Vehicle raises feet high to service a -meter Japanese ALMA telescope The FESV is based on the ...
Read more
VLA Dish Dipped in the Barn
A rare view of a dipped -meter dish antenna of the Very Large Array undergoing maintenance inside the Antenna Assembly Building ...
Read more
Busy Little Robots
Each of the Green Bank Telescope's surface panels is adjusted by a small computer-controlled motor called an actuator seen here at ...
Read more
Ants on a Plate
From over feet above them painters look like ants on the acre dish of the Green Bank Telescope Each of the ...
Read more
Telescope Comparison
Sited at ft above sea level ALMA is the highest array of telescopes in the world This diagram compares the major ...
Read more
300-foot Masterpiece
The -foot telescope in Green Bank West Virginia after its completion in September
Read more
ALMA in its Compact Formation
ALMA's antennas can be rearranged to simulate a single big telescope or a very widespread array In this smaller configuration -meter ...
Read more
VLA / Orion at Blue Hour
Photo taken by Bettymaya Foott as part of an astrophotography project with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Very Large ...
Read more
Molecules in the disc around the star IRS 48
These images from the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array ALMA show where various gas molecules were found in the disc around ...
Read more
Virgo’s NGC 4567 and NGC 4568
NGC and NGC are two of the thousands of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster located roughly million light-years from Earth Observed ...
Read more
Ram Pressure Stripped Galaxy NGC4921
Shown here in composite view ALMA data red orange reveals filament structures left behind by ram pressure stripping in a Hubble ...
Read more
Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
Artist impression of the interstellar comet I Borisov as it travels through our solar system This mysterious visitor from the depths ...
Read more
Artist illustration of Antares’ Atmosphere
Artist impression of the atmosphere of Antares As seen with the naked eye up until the photosphere Antares is around times ...
Read more
Cannonball Pulsar
Observations using the Very Large Array orange reveal the needle-like trail of pulsar J outside the shell of its supernova remnant ...
Read more
ALMA’s Highest-Frequency Capabilities
A team of scientists using the highest-frequency capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array ALMA has uncovered jets of warm ...
Read more
Artist Impression of CK Vul
Artist impression of the collision of two stars like the ones that formed CK Vul The inset illustrates the inner structure ...
Read more
Aging Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble
This ALMA image reveals much finer structure in the U Antliae shell than has previously been possible Around years ago U ...
Read more
A Wobbling Jet
Inside the famous Manatee Nebula W lies the black hole remnant of the supernova that formed it called SS Its jets ...
Read more
Yarkovsky Effect
Just as the afternoon is the warmest part of the day on Earth the space rock develops a warm region that ...
Read more
Craters in Radar
Partial mosaic of cm radar images of nearside of the moon taken by the Green Bank Telescope GBT from radio waves ...
Read more
The Parallax Technique
The parallax technique determines distance by measuring the angle of apparent shift in an object's position as seen from opposite sides ...
Read more
Old, New, and Future Stars in NGC 3596
This gorgeous face-on spiral galaxy is called NGC This image combines Hydrogen-alpha emission red visible light in the R-band white and ...
Read more
The Collision of M51
In this composite image of the Whirlpool Galaxy the Very Large Array has captured the vastness of this colliding pair like ...
Read more
Outflows from a Young Solar System
Astronomers have found the youngest still-forming solar system yet seen an infant star surrounded by a swirling disk of dust and ...
Read more
Moon as seen by ALMA
First radio image of the Moon taken with a -meter ALMA antenna The optical image at left shows the sunlight reflected ...
Read more
Flaming Fornax Galaxy
Radio waves are invisible to our eyes therefore they do not arrive in any color that we've ever known When we ...
Read more
In a Frame of Color
The Green Bank Telescope GBT is always picture-perfect when autumn comes to its gorgeous West Virginia home
Read more
Labeled Map of Our Galaxy’s Center
The diagonal line of bright objects in this image of the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy are all powerful sources ...
Read more
Hercules A
The Very Large Array sees fountains of hot gas erupting from a beastly black hole in the heart of a large ...
Read more
Boomerang Nebula
The Boomerang Nebula reveals its true shape with ALMA The background purple structure as seen in visible light HST shows a ...
Read more
VLA Yields New Insights on Solar Flares
Artist's conception of particle acceleration in a solar flare
Read more
The Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987A
Astronomers combined observations from three different observatories to produce this colorful multiwavelength image of the intricate remains of Supernova A The ...
Read more
North Pole of the Moon
Radar maps can look like optical images but they represent the amount of energy reflected back toward the transmitter by any ...
Read more
WMAP Amplifiers
Centimeter-wave radio astronomy receivers under GHz now almost universally use cooled HFET heterostructure field-effect transistor amplifiers as the low-noise input amplifier ...
Read more
VLBA Pie Town antenna surrounded by snow-covered landscape
The Pie Town New Mexico antenna is one of ten identical antennas which are located throughout the northern hemisphere that are ...
Read more
ALMA’s Supercomputer
The four-quadrant ALMA Correlator inside the Array Operations Site Technical Building at feet elevation in northern Chile This supercomputer can process ...
Read more
Trucking a Giant Feed Horn
The L-band feed horn is one of the largest feed horns used on our radio telescopes The size of a feed ...
Read more
VLA’s Miles of Old Tracks
Over miles of train track re-purposed from old discontinued rail lines around the United States allow the Very Large Array to ...
Read more
Painting the GBT
Each of the aluminum panels of the acres of Green Bank Telescope's surface must be scraped and repainted on a rotating ...
Read more
Replacing Hard Drives at the VLA in 1983
Dave Ehnebuske replaces cartridges of hard drives at the Very Large Array's computer facility in
Read more
Snowstorm at ALMA
At feet in the Chilean Andes ALMA experiences some extreme weather conditions They don't last long but they blow through in ...
Read more
A Thousand Points of Light
The panels of the Green Bank Telescope have apple-sized reflector bulbs embedded in them Engineers can light the surface of the ...
Read more
Green Bank Telescope
The Green Bank Telescope is the world's largest fully-steerable telescope The GBT's dish is -meters by -meters in size covering acres ...
Read more
The First Short GRB Millimeter Afterglow: The Wide-Angled Jet of Gamma Ray Burst 211106A
In a first for radio astronomy scientists have detected millimeter-wavelength light from a short-duration gamma-ray burst This artist's conception shows the ...
Read more
VLBA Finds Planet Orbiting Small, Cool Star
Using the supersharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation s continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array VLBA astronomers have discovered a ...
Read more
Neutron star in Supernova 1987A
This artist's illustration of Supernova A shows the dusty inner regions of the exploded star's remnants red in which a neutron ...
Read more
FBOTs, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Supernovae
Artist's conception illustrates the differences in phenomena resulting from an ordinary core-collapse supernova explosion an explosion creating a gamma-ray burst and ...
Read more
55 antennas on Chajnantor plains
ALMA with antennas in March The Atacama Compact Array is clearly visible as the tightly-grouped set of smaller antennas The Array ...
Read more
Aligned and Misaligned Circumbinary Disks
Two examples of aligned and misaligned protoplanetary disks around binary stars circumbinary disks observed with ALMA Binary star orbits are added ...
Read more
Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope EHT a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration was designed to capture ...
Read more
PHANGS-ALMA Radio Image of NGC 4321
ALMA image of galaxy NGC also known as Messier an intermediate spiral galaxy located about million light-years from Earth in the ...
Read more
ALMA and Otto
An ALMA antenna being moved at the Operations Support Facility OSF by Otto one of the two specially designed transporters built ...
Read more
The Boundary Between Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf
Artist's conception of SIMP J an object with times the mass of Jupiter but a magnetic field times more powerful than ...
Read more
Even Dense Neutron Stars Fall like a Feather
Harnessing the exquisite sensitivity of the National Science Foundation s Green Bank Telescope GBT astronomers have given one of Einstein s ...
Read more
Measuring Magnetic Fields
Artist's conception of gravitational lens arrangement that allowed astronomers to measure a galaxy's magnetic field Magnetic fields affect radio waves that ...
Read more
Chaotically Magnetized Cloud Is No Place to Build a Star, or Is It?
For decades scientists thought that the magnetic field lines coursing around newly forming stars were both powerful and unyielding working like ...
Read more
Measuring a Magnetic Field
In this artist's illustration the black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy has an intense magnetic field around ...
Read more
Finding Ice in Baby Solar Systems
Artist concept of the so-called snow line in the young planet-forming system known as TW Hydrae A snow line is where ...
Read more
Composite image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097, including images from ALMA and HST
Composite image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC By studying the motion of two molecules ALMA was able to determine that ...
Read more
Grote Reber’s Receiver Exhibit
On exhibit in the Green Bank Science Center in West Virginia is the original receiver equipment used by radio astronomy pioneer ...
Read more
ALMA Transporters ascend to the high site
The two ALMA Transporters giant -wheeled trucks that lift power and haul the telescopes for major servicing or during reconfigurations of ...
Read more
VLA Background 2
Try out this high definition image for your desktop or video chat background
Read more
Looking Down on the VLA Barn
The Sun sets over the Antenna Assembly Building at the Very Large Array in central New Mexico Inside the so-called Barn ...
Read more
Sunbeams Grace ALMA
Beams of sunshine are captured behind the distant mountains that ring the ALMA site in northern Chile A -meter Japanese antenna ...
Read more
Tidal Disruption Event in Arp 299
Artist's conception of Tidal Disruption Event TDE in Arp Powerful gravity of supermassive black hole shreds passing star pulling material into ...
Read more
Band 6 SIS Mixer
The largest millimeter array in the world relies on the tiniest electronic parts These are mixers for the receivers used in ...
Read more
Amidst the Antennas of the LWA
These are the four-sided dipole antennas of the Long Wavelength Array on the site of the Very Large Array in central ...
Read more
Ghostly Glow of ALMA at Night
The green safety lights on the ALMA antennas provide the only light for this long-exposure photograph at the -foot elevation high ...
Read more
Protoplanetary Disks Side-by-Side Comparison
Protoplanetary disks are classified into three main categories transition ring or extended These false-color images from the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter ...
Read more
ALMA Observes Most Distant Galactic Outflow
ALMA aided by a gravitational lens imaged the outflow or wind from a galaxy seen when the universe was only one ...
Read more
Brown Dwarf and its Magnetic Field
Artist's conception of a brown dwarf -- an object intermediate in mass between a star and a planet -- along with ...
Read more
Sharper Image of Galaxy with VLASS
The sharpest radio view ever made of such a large portion of the sky This galaxy observed by the new VLA ...
Read more
VLA Background 7
Try out this high definition image for your desktop or video chat background
Read more
Double Sunset on a ‘Tatooine’ Exoplanet
Artist impression of a double sunset on a 'Tatooine' exoplanet forming in a circumbinary disk that is misaligned with the orbits ...
Read more
VLBA Sees Diffraction Patterns Caused by Asteroid
Radio waves from a distant galaxy were blocked from view by an asteroid in our Solar System However in a process ...
Read more
VLBA Global Locations
Artist's conception of the Very Long Baseline Array VLBA a continent-wide radio telescope system The VLBA is an interferometer consisting of ...
Read more
Ease on Down the Road
On a schedule that runs throughout the year the antennas of the Very Large Array in New Mexico ride the red ...
Read more
The Expansion of Supernova 1993j
SN J was discovered March by Francisco Garcia Diaz an amateur astronomer in Lugo Spain using a -inch Newtonian telescope Located ...
Read more
Glowing Bubble of an Exploded Star
Radio image of supernova remnant G shows previously-unseen filamentary structure thanks to enhancements made to the Very Large Array VLA ...
Read more
Cassiopeia A
Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a supernova explosion that appeared in our sky over years ago in our Galaxy at ...
Read more
Stars Forming in our Galaxy’s Heart
The Galactic Center and the surrounding Central Molecular Zone make up the most active star formation region in the Milky Way ...
Read more
Black Hole Fires Jet at Companion Galaxy
This composite image of the radio galaxy C shows the jet from a black hole at the center of the larger ...
Read more
Sagittarius A
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is anchored by a black hole that is nearly million times the mass of ...
Read more
Inflow, Outflow Cycle of Gas Near Black Hole
Artist impression of Abell showing the central supermassive black hole expelling cold molecular gas -- like the pump of a giant ...
Read more
ALMA Spies Sunspots
This image of the entire Sun was taken at a wavelength of nanometers Light at this wavelength originates from the visible ...
Read more
Volcanoes on Io
Composite image showing Jupiter's moon Io in radio ALMA and optical light Voyager and Galileo The ALMA images of Io show ...
Read more
Venus as Seen in Radar with the GBT
A projection of the radar data of Venus collected in Striking surface features -- like mountains and ridges -- are easily ...
Read more
ALMA Observation of Europa
ALMA image of Jupiter's moon Europa ALMA was able to map out thermal variations on its surface Hubble image of Jupiter ...
Read more
Heart of an Exploded Star Observed in 3-D
Remnant of Supernova A as seen by ALMA Purple area indicates emission from SiO molecules Yellow area is emission from CO ...
Read more
The Center of the Phoenix Cluster
Artist impression of galaxy at the center of the Phoenix Cluster Powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the ...
Read more
HC3N in Titan’s Lower Atmosphere
ALMA image of the distribution of the organic molecule HC N at intermediate-to-lower elevations in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan ...
Read more
Pulsar Wind Nebula
This beautiful cloud of gas exploded outward when the star in its center went supernova and turned into a pulsar The ...
Read more
ALMA Mosaic Star Cluster
Image of star cluster G caught in the act of formation This is a multiwavelength mosaic of more than ALMA radio ...
Read more
Fast Radio Burst tracked down by VLA
For the first time astronomers pinpointed the location of a fast radio burst FRB which is a phenomena where a very ...
Read more
The Active Galactic Nucleus of 3C 120
Still image from an animation depicting the jets emitted by the black hole in galaxy C
Read more
HL Tau: Birth of Planets Revealed in Astonishing Detail
ALMA image of the young star HL Tau and its protoplanetary disk This best image ever of planet formation reveals multiple ...
Read more
Wolfe Disk Artist Impression
Artist impression of the Wolfe Disk a massive rotating disk galaxy in the early dusty universe The galaxy was initially discovered ...
Read more
Comet 2I/Borisov Has an Unusual Composition
Interstellar comet I Borisov a mysterious visitor from the depths of space is the first conclusively identified comet from another star ...
Read more
A Spooky View of Galactic Gas
This image may look spooky to you but astronomers see a galaxy It was captured by the Very Large Array VLA ...
Read more
PHANGS-ALMA Survey: NGC0628
While conducting a census of nearly galaxies in the nearby Universe the PHANGS survey observed NGC a galaxy with pure grand-design ...
Read more
Twenty Protoplanetary Disks Imaged by ALMA
A team of astronomers has conducted ALMA s first large-scale high-resolution survey of protoplanetary disks Known as the Disk Substructures at ...
Read more
Megamasers and Cosmology
Artist's conception illustrating a disk of water-bearing gas orbiting the supermassive black hole at the core of a distant galaxy By ...
Read more
ALMA Sees a Baby Solar System
Observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array ALMA telescope of the disc of gas and cosmic dust around the ...
Read more
Artist’s impression of the disc of dust and gas around a brown dwarf
This artist s impression shows the disc of gas and cosmic dust around a brown dwarf Rocky planets are thought to ...
Read more
How to Make a Millisecond Pulsar
The diagram outlines each step needed to create a pulsar with a superfast spin The Standard Scenario - A massive supergiant ...
Read more
Pulsar Escaping its Supernova Birthplace
Artist's animation of Pulsar J speeding away from its birthplace and escaping the shell of debris from the supernova explosion that ...
Read more
PHANGS-ALMA Survey: NGC1385
During a survey of nearly galaxies in the nearby Universe the PHANGS team observed NGC a galaxy featuring pure flocculent disk ...
Read more
PHANGS-ALMA
ALMA is revealing new insights into the relationship between star-forming clouds and their host galaxies
Read more
04 – ALMA Top 10 – PHANGS: A New Survey Unravels the Relationship between Star-forming Clouds and their Host Galaxies.
Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes Some of the most significant differences among galaxies however relate to ...
Read more
Antennae Galaxies
Hard to believe that this was once a pair of spiral galaxies Undergoing a violent merger the well-named Antennae Galaxies are ...
Read more
ALMA Discovers Unexpected Trove of Star-forming Gas in Phoenix Cluster
Video explaining the complex relationship between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy in the Phoenix Cluster as studied with ...
Read more
Lining up the VLA antennas
There are dish antennas within the Very Large Array that are identical -meter telescopes working together as one This photo shows ...
Read more
Stellar Embryos in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Contain Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules
Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered chemical fingerprints of methanol dimethyl ether and methyl formate in the Large Magellanic Cloud The latter ...
Read more
Glowing Core of Brilliant Galaxy NGC 5643
This composite image shows the center of a galaxy named NGC This galaxy is located million light-years from Earth in the ...
Read more
Milky Way-Like Galaxies in the Early Universe
Astronomers using ALMA have directly observed a pair of Milky Way-like galaxies seen as they appeared billions of years ago These ...
Read more
Illustration of a High Redshift Galaxy
Artist impression of a progenitor of Milky Way-like galaxy in the early universe with a background quasar shinning through a 'super ...
Read more
Long Wavelength Demonstrator Array
The Long Wavelength Array is a collection of antennas stationed at the Very Large Array site outside Magdalena New Mexico It ...
Read more
A Disk of Starforming Gas
Artist's conception of the disk of star-forming gas around the center of the galaxy hosting the quasar PSS J The disk ...
Read more
#WAWUA – ALMA Observes the Invisible Universe
With colorful artwork and clever animations these short videos delve into topics that explain the fundamentals of radio astronomy including interferometry ...
Read more
ngVLA Artist Impressions: Time Domain, Cosmology, Physics Sketches
In June of NRAO invited four artists to a conference at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to interpret the ...
Read more
Students Use the 40-foot
The -foot telescope in Green Bank West Virginia is used as an educational instrument
Read more
Orphan GRB Discovered with VLASS
Series of radio images of FIRST J from to show its slow fade Astronomers comparing data from an ongoing major survey ...
Read more
Giant Antenna in Nancay, France
In Nancay France looms this enormous radio telescope This portion of it is a section of a sphere that reflects the ...
Read more
#WAWUA – ALMA and the Cold Interstellar Clouds
With colorful artwork and clever animations these short videos delve into topics that explain the fundamentals of radio astronomy including interferometry ...
Read more
ALMA’s Radio Wave Path
In this animation the radio waves received from objects in space reflect off of ALMA antenna dishes and come to a ...
Read more
ALMA Sees Into the Heart of the Phoenix Cluster
ALMA image of cold molecular gas at the heart of the Phoenix Cluster The filaments extending from the center hug enormous ...
Read more
Fast Blue Optical Transients
Artist's conception illustrates the phenomena that make up the new class of cosmic explosions called Fast Blue Optical Transients
Read more
Milky Way Over ALMA
In its high-elevation site where the atmospheric pressure is half what it is at sea level ALMA's views of the sky ...
Read more
Campbell Wade
Campbell M Wade came to Green Bank West Virginia in He had been an astronomer trained at Harvard who had then ...
Read more
NGC 253: Why Starburst Galaxies Burst
Animation of ALMA data reveals a diffuse envelope of carbon monoxide gas shown in red which surrounds stellar nurseries -- regions ...
Read more
Europa, The Water Moon of Jupiter Poster
Downloadable poster of an ALMA observation of Europa This intriguing image of Jupiter's moon Europa was acquired with the Atacama Large ...
Read more
VLASS Sharpens the View
The new VLA Sky Survey VLASS sharpens the view Here is the same radio-emitting object as seen from left to right ...
Read more
A Universe Full of Radio Galaxies
Radio galaxies are a subclass of active galactic nuclei AGN and in most cases display what is known as a core-jet-lobe ...
Read more
ALMA Gets Its First Antenna
On September the first ALMA antenna was installed on Pad at the -meter elevation Llano Chajnantor high site in northern Chile ...
Read more
ALMA and VLA Images of AT2018cow
ALMA and VLA images of the mysterious new type of cosmic blast AT cow at left Visible-light image of outburst in ...
Read more
Hints that Prebiotic Chemistry Is Universal
Artist impression of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star MWC ALMA has detected the complex organic molecule methyl cyanide in ...
Read more
Interpreting Science through Art. Time Domain Astronomy and the Next-Generation Very Large Array
In June of NRAO invited four artists to a conference at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to interpret the ...
Read more
ngVLA: Together We See More
The Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array ALMA has shown us young star systems where planets are forming The next-generation Very Large ...
Read more
A Comet Hits Jupiter
This pair of radio images taken by the Very Large Array VLA shows the planet Jupiter before left - June and ...
Read more
A Cloudy Twilight at the VLA
Clouds linger at twilight over the Karl G Jansky Very Large Array in its most compact configuration
Read more
ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery
This spectacular and unusual image shows part of the famous Orion Nebula a star formation region lying about light-years from Earth ...
Read more
How to Weigh a Pulsar
Pulses from a neutron star rear are slowed as they pass near the foreground white dwarf star The effect known as ...
Read more
First Fringes of ALMA Prototypes
In March of two ALMA prototype antennas were linked together at the Very Large Array in New Mexico as an integrated ...
Read more
#WAWUA – ALMA is a Timemachine!
With colorful artwork and clever animations these short videos delve into topics that explain the fundamentals of radio astronomy including interferometry ...
Read more
#WAWUA – We are Stardust!
With colorful artwork and clever animations these short videos delve into topics that explain the fundamentals of radio astronomy including interferometry ...
Read more
VLBA Reveals First-Ever Black Hole “Visual Binary”
VLBA image of the central region of the galaxy showing the two cores labeled C and C identified as a pair ...
Read more
The Backs of the VLA Dishes
The Very Large Array antennas dip in formation to observe a target in the southwest sky Radio telescopes can observe day ...
Read more
Karl Jansky with his Milky Way Map
Karl Guthe Jansky joined the staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel New Jersey in While hunting for radio static ...
Read more
A Dish as White as Snow
The paint on the Green Bank Telescope GBT is a special blend that reflects sunlight gives off heat to keep the ...
Read more
Scott Ransom: Part 10 Black Holes
Scott Ransom an astronomer at NRAO talks about black holes
Read more
Across the Milky Way (teal version)
A radio and infrared wave panorama of a section of the Milky Way in the constellations of Scutum and Aquila Normal ...
Read more
A Quartet of 7-meter Antennas
Four -meter Japanese ALMA telescopes are being readied for final testing and acceptance by ALMA at the Operations Support Facility in ...
Read more