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History Of Radio Astronomy Book
History Of Radio Astronomy Book
July 23, 2007 at 7:04 pm | Announcement

A new book published by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory tells the story of the founding and early years of the Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia. But it was Fun: the first forty years of radio astronomy at Green Bank, is not a formal history, but rather a scrapbook of early memos, recollections, anecdotes and reports.

Professor Karl M. Menten
German Astronomer Karl Menten Is 2007 Jansky Awardee
June 29, 2007 at 6:53 pm | Announcement

Associated Universities, Inc, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have awarded the 2007 Karl G Jansky Lectureship to Professor Karl M Menten of the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, Germany.

Dedication of NRAO
NRAO 50th-Anniversary Science Meeting
June 25, 2007 at 6:50 pm | Announcement

Radio telescopes now in operation or under construction will be indispensible to scientists wrestling with the big, unanswered questions of 21st-Century astrophysics. That was the conclusion of a wide-ranging scientific meeting held in Charlottesville, Virginia, June 18-21, to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

NRAO Teams With NASA Gamma-Ray Satellite
NRAO Teams With NASA Gamma-Ray Satellite
June 5, 2007 at 6:42 pm | Announcement

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is teaming with NASA’s upcoming Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope to allow astronomers to use both the orbiting facility and ground-based radio telescopes to maximize their scientific payoff.

The VLA
Star Cluster Holds Midweight Black Hole, VLA Indicates
May 28, 2007 at 6:32 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope have greatly strengthened the case that supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies may have formed through mergers of smaller black holes.

NGC 5291
Missing Mass Found in Recycled Dwarf Galaxies
May 10, 2007 at 6:27 pm | News Release

Astronomers studying dwarf galaxies formed from the debris of a collision of larger galaxies found the dwarfs much more massive than expected, and think the additional material is missing mass that theorists said should not be present in this kind of dwarf galaxy.

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