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Scientists Discover Two New Interstellar Molecules
June 21, 2004 at 7:34 pm | News Release

A team of scientists using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope has discovered two new molecules in an interstellar cloud near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

An artist's impression of Supernova 1986J.
Radio Telescopes Reveal Youngest Stellar Corpse
June 10, 2004 at 7:29 pm | News Release

Astronomers using a global combination of radio telescopes to study a stellar explosion some 30 million light-years from Earth have likely discovered either the youngest black hole or the youngest neutron star known in the Universe.

HST and radio image of M51
Gas Clouds in Arms of Whirlpool Galaxy
June 3, 2004 at 7:23 pm | News Release

Astronomers studying gas clouds in the famous Whirlpool Galaxy have found important clues supporting a theory that seeks to explain how the spectacular spiral arms of galaxies can persist for billions of years. The astronomers applied techniques used to study similar gas clouds in our own Milky Way to those in the spiral arms of a neighbor galaxy for the first time, and their results bolster a theory first proposed in 1964.

Galactic center radio image
Giant ‘Lobe’ in Galactic Center
June 2, 2004 at 7:17 pm | News Release

An astronomer using the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has discovered that two prominent features rising out of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy are actually the distant edges of the same superstructure. This object, which has the appearance of a “lobe,” may have been formed during an epoch of furious star formation.

VLA and GBT image of Galactic Center
Origin of Enigmatic Galactic-center Filaments Revealed
June 1, 2004 at 7:06 pm | News Release

Twenty years ago, astronomers discovered a number of enigmatic radio-emitting filaments concentrated near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Milky Way's nucleus
Black Hole Fits Inside Earth’s Orbit
April 1, 2004 at 8:04 pm | News Release

Thirty years after astronomers discovered the mysterious object at the exact center of our Milky Way Galaxy, an international team of scientists has finally succeeded in directly measuring the size of that object, which surrounds a black hole nearly four million times more massive than the Sun.

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