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NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Mexican Institutions Sign Historic Agreements to Advance ngVLA Collaboration
NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Mexican Institutions Sign Historic Agreements to Advance ngVLA Collaboration
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 pm | News Release

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO), in partnership with several leading Mexican universities and research institutes, has announced a series of landmark agreements and meetings aimed at advancing Mexico’s role in the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) project. This represents a significant step in strengthening international collaboration for one of the world’s most ambitious astronomical observatories.

James Webb Space Telescope deep field image with highlighted distant red galaxy
Astronomers Discover a Superheated Star Factory in the Early Universe
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 pm | News Release

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy…

Astronomers Share Largest Molecular Survey To-date: GOTHAM Legacy Data Goes Public
Astronomers Share Largest Molecular Survey To-date: GOTHAM Legacy Data Goes Public
October 23, 2025 at 12:46 pm | News Release

A groundbreaking new dataset from the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF GBT) is now publicly available,…

Astronomers Map Mysterious “Dark” Gas in the Milky Way
Astronomers Map Mysterious “Dark” Gas in the Milky Way
October 23, 2025 at 12:37 pm | News Release

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as…

Illustration of new ALMA observations revealing spiral-shaped gas streamer guided by magnetic fields in a star-forming nursery
Astronomers Spot Magnetically-Guided Streamer Funneling Star-Building Material into Newborn System in Perseus
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 pm | News Release

A team of astronomers led by Paulo Cortes, a scientist with the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy…

Astronomers Discover Fastest-Evolving Radio Signals Ever Observed from Black Hole Tearing Apart Star
Astronomers Discover Fastest-Evolving Radio Signals Ever Observed from Black Hole Tearing Apart Star
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 pm | News Release

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first radio-bright tidal disruption event (TDE) occurring outside a galaxy’s center using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) Very Large Array (NSF VLA) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), along with several partner telescopes,. The event, designated AT 2024tvd, revealed the fastest-evolving radio signals ever observed from this type of cosmic catastrophe.

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