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The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.
Youngest Radio Pulsar Revealed with Green Bank Telescope
April 15, 2002 at 2:28 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s newly commissioned Green Bank Telescope have detected remarkably faint radio signals from an 820 year-old pulsar, making it the youngest radio-emitting pulsar known.

GBT-VLA Image of Orion Nebula.
GBT, VLA Team Up to Produce New Image of Orion Nebula
January 10, 2002 at 2:48 pm | News Release

Combining the best features of the National Science Foundation’s new Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia with those of the NSF’s Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers have produced a vastly improved radio image of the Orion Nebula and developed a valuable new technique for studying star formation and other astrophysical processes.

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.
Newly Commissioned GBT Bags New Pulsars
January 4, 2002 at 2:50 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s newly commissioned Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a windfall of three previously undetected millisecond pulsars in a dense cluster of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Arecibo-GBT radar image of Venus
GBT’s First Scientific Observations
May 10, 2001 at 10:29 pm | News Release

The world’s two largest radio telescopes have combined to make detailed radar images of the cloud-shrouded surface of Venus and of a tiny asteroid that passed near the Earth.

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.
Decision Announced in GBT Arbritration Case
February 12, 2001 at 11:20 pm | News Release

A decision has been reached by the arbitrator in the dispute between COMSAT Corporation, now part of Lockheed-Martin Global Telecommunications, and Associated Universities, Inc regarding additional costs on the contract to design and construct the Green Bank Telescope.

Green Bank Telescope strip chart recording
First Light for the GBT
August 28, 2000 at 9:52 pm | News Release

At a ceremony last Friday, August 25 in which the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope was formally dedicated, U.S. Senator Robert C Byrd announced that the gigantic telescope had successfully opened its two-acre ‘eye’ on the Universe earlier that week.

Green Bank Telescope
GBT Construction Milestone
August 28, 2000 at 9:04 pm | Announcement

The last of 2,004 aluminum surface panels was recently installed on the GBT’s two-acre (100 m x 110 m) collecting dish. The telescope is located at NRAO’s Green Bank site, in rural Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

The Green Bank Telescope.
Radio Astronomy Celebrations
August 8, 2000 at 9:49 pm | Announcement

In Socorro, New Mexico, the observatory will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its famed Very Large Array (VLA), and in Green Bank, West Virginia, officials will formally dedicate the new Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the world’s largest fully-steerable dish antenna.

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