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![NAC Student Researchers Receive Prestigious Chambliss Medals at AAS 243](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Chambliss_Awards_2024_16x9-585x300.png)
Two student researchers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s National Astronomy Consortium (NAC) program were each awarded the prestigious…
![Can Astronomers Use Radar to Spot a Cataclysmic Asteroid?](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/16x20-Green-Bank-585x300.jpg)
How can humans protect the Earth from “devastating asteroid and comet impacts?” According to the National Academies and their…
![Astronomers Discover Jupiter-sized Objects Drawn into Each Other’s Orbit](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/WestArm_2b_JHR0642-585x300.jpg)
What happens to planet-sized objects that don’t have a star? A team of astronomers studying Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) in the Orion Nebula are gaining a new understanding of these unusual systems.
![Telescopes Show the Milky Way’s Black Hole is Ready for a Kick](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/football-585x300.jpg)
A new study may help settle the question of how rapidly the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is spinning.
![ALMA Gets a New Heartbeat](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ALMA_potw_eso_130415-585x300.jpg)
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has just received a “heart transplant,” high in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. ALMA, the most complex astronomical observatory ever built on Earth, installed a new hydrogen maser. Funded by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), this upgrade marks an essential investment, setting a new standard in reliability for observations.
![First Recipient of Women in Engineering Fellowship Joins Staff of Central Development Laboratory](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NRAO23cf05_Priyanka_Mondal-585x300.png)
Following a generous grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Central Development Laboratory (CDL) at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has selected their first recipient of the postdoctoral Women in Engineering fellowship, Priyanka Mondal. The Women in Engineering program increases opportunities for women to enter the field of radio astronomy through engineering pathways.