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Image Highlight: ALMA Explores Orion’s Turbulent Border

August 15, 2016 at 2:20 pm | Announcement

ALMA sees transition from atomic to molecular gas in Orion.

Magdalena Teacher, Students Begin Exchange Visit to Chile

July 29, 2016 at 8:38 pm | Announcement

Two students and a teacher from Magdalena, New Mexico, have arrived in the Chilean town of San Pedro de Atacama as part of a Sister Cities program sponsored by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI).

ALMA Explores the Magnetic Universe

July 19, 2016 at 1:00 pm | Announcement

ALMA verifies its outstanding polarimetric capabilities.

ALMA Band 1 Receiver Cold Cartridge Assembly.

ALMA Board Approves Band 1 Receivers

June 23, 2016 at 1:24 pm | Announcement

ALMA Band 1 receiver approved by ALMA Board.

ALMA Sounds, an Interactive Project to Search for a Common Cosmic Language

June 17, 2016 at 11:56 am | Announcement

ALMA Sounds to be featured at Sonar+D Festival.

First Detection of Methyl Alcohol in a Planet-forming Disk

June 15, 2016 at 10:00 am | Announcement

ALMA detects methanol in TW Hya.

NRAO’s New iOS App Puts the Radio Universe in Your Hand

June 9, 2016 at 2:05 pm | Announcement

NRAO launches its first mobile app, RadioSky, for free download in the Apple iTunes Store.

HCO+ gas distribution in the disk around HL Tauri.

Footprints of Baby Planets in a Gas Disk

May 25, 2016 at 12:25 pm | Announcement

Astronomers use ALMA to find new evidence of infant planets.

Attacker Damages Radio Telescope Site on Mauna Kea

March 30, 2016 at 12:23 am | Announcement

Official statement on the attack of the Mauna Kea VLBA station.

2016 edition of Essential Radio Astronomy

Essential Radio Astronomy: 2016 Edition Published by Princeton University Press

March 29, 2016 at 2:21 pm | Announcement

Essential Radio Astronomy for the first time published by Princeton University Press.

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