
Giant Antenna in Nancay, France
In Nancay, France looms this enormous radio telescope. This portion of it is a section of a sphere that...
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A Molecular Fountain In Abell 2597
Composite image of the Abell 2597 galaxy cluster showing the fountain-like flow of gas powered by the supermassive black...
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Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
Artist impression of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as it travels through our solar system. This mysterious visitor from the...
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A Wobbling Jet
Inside the famous Manatee Nebula (W50) lies the black hole remnant of the supernova that formed it, called SS...
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#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,...
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ALMA’s Radio Wave Path
In this animation, the radio waves received from objects in space reflect off of ALMA antenna dishes and come...
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Hercules A
The Very Large Array sees fountains of hot gas erupting from a beastly black hole in the heart of...
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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...
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VLA Deep Field
Staring at a small patch of sky for more than 50 hours with the ultra-sensitive Karl G. Jansky Very...
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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...
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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...
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Fast Blue Optical Transients
Artist's conception illustrates the phenomena that make up the new class of cosmic explosions called Fast Blue Optical Transients.
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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...
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Cannonball Pulsar
Observations using the Very Large Array (orange) reveal the needle-like trail of pulsar J0002+6216 outside the shell of its...
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Arp 299
This colliding pair of galaxies is a region of vigorous star formation which has been investigated for many years....
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Campbell Wade
Campbell M. Wade came to Green Bank, West Virginia in 1960. He had been an astronomer trained at Harvard...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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ALMA Mosaic Star Cluster
Image of star cluster G286.21+0.17, caught in the act of formation. This is a multiwavelength mosaic of more than...
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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...
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VLASS Sharpens the View
The new VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) sharpens the view. Here is the same radio-emitting object as seen, from left...
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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...
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ALMA Gets Its First Antenna
On September 23, 2009, the first ALMA antenna was installed on Pad 106 at the 5,050-meter elevation Llano Chajnantor...
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ALMA and VLA Images of AT2018cow
ALMA and VLA images of the mysterious new type of cosmic blast, AT2018cow at left. Visible-light image of outburst...
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Double Boomerang
This new image of galaxy PKS 2014-55, located 800 million light years from Earth, was made by NRAO scientist...
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Hints that Prebiotic Chemistry Is Universal
Artist impression of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star MWC 480. ALMA has detected the complex organic molecule...
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Interpreting Science through Art. Time Domain Astronomy and the Next-Generation Very Large Array
In June of 2017, NRAO invited four artists to a conference at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology...
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Early Days in the VLA Barn
In the 1970s, the Very Large Array was still under construction in the New Mexico desert. In this aerial...
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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...
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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....
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A Young VLA
The Very Large Array in December of 1979, one month after the final and 28th antenna had been delivered.
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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.
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A Comet Hits Jupiter
This pair of radio images taken by the Very Large Array (VLA) shows the planet Jupiter before (left -...
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ALMA and the OMC-1
This animation shows the motions of the gas streamers emanating from the OMC-1 star-forming region in Orion as seen...
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A Cloudy Twilight at the VLA
Clouds linger at twilight over the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in its most compact configuration.
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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 1350...
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How to Weigh a Pulsar
Pulses from a neutron star (rear) are slowed as they pass near the foreground white dwarf star. The effect,...
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Aircraft Lights Atop the VLA
In the early days of the Very Large Array, each 25-meter antenna had an aircraft warning light set atop...
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First Fringes of ALMA Prototypes
In March of 2007, two ALMA prototype antennas were linked together at the Very Large Array in New Mexico...
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#WAWUA – ALMA is a Timemachine!
With colorful artwork and clever animations, these short videos delve into topics that explain the fundamentals of radio astronomy,...
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#WAWUA – We are Stardust!
With colorful artwork and clever animations, these short videos delve into topics that explain the fundamentals of radio astronomy,...
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AGNs Seen at Different Angles
One type of active galactic nuclei (AGN) -- a supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust...
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VLBA Reveals First-Ever Black Hole “Visual Binary”
VLBA image of the central region of the galaxy 0402+379, showing the two cores, labeled C1 and C2, identified...
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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...
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Karl Jansky with his Milky Way Map
Karl Guthe Jansky joined the staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey in 1928. While hunting...
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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...
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Stormy Sunset Over ALMA
A break in the clouds during a snowstorm creates a dramatic scene at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in...
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Scott Ransom: Part 10 Black Holes
Scott Ransom, an astronomer at NRAO, talks about black holes.
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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...
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Gazing Upon Our First Telescope
The newly assembled 85-foot Howard E. Tatel telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia was the first radio telescope of...
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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...
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A Quartet of 7-meter Antennas
Four 7-meter Japanese ALMA telescopes are being readied for final testing and acceptance by ALMA at the Operations Support...
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