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Hidden Details Revealed in Nearby Starburst Galaxy

December 9, 2013 at 7:00 pm | News Release

Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the GBT, astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82.

NRAO Media Tip Sheet: November 2013

November 26, 2013 at 12:00 pm | Tip Sheet

VLBI between West Virginia and Shanghai and the world’s first radio sundial.

Infant Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’

November 21, 2013 at 2:29 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have…

Surprising Image Provides New Tool for Studying a Galaxy

November 13, 2013 at 5:50 pm | News Release

Astronomers studying gas halos around nearby galaxies were surprised Very Large Array showed that one of their subjects is not a single galaxy, but two, superimposed on the sky to masquerade as one.

Artist's impression of Smith Cloud and Milky Way

Magnetic Force Field Shields Giant Gas Cloud

October 30, 2013 at 8:05 pm | News Release

Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy.

ALMA Reveals Ghostly Shape of Coldest Place in the Universe

October 23, 2013 at 1:16 pm | News Release

At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin, the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe.

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