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U.S.-Canadian Partner in ALMA and EVLA
January 10, 2001 at 11:18 pm | News Release

The United States and Canada intend to collaborate on two of the most important radio astronomy projects of the new century — the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the Expanded Very Large Array.

False-color image of M33
Unprecedented Detail of Neighbor Galaxy
January 9, 2001 at 11:09 pm | News Release

Using radio telescopes in the United States and Europe, astronomers have made the most detailed images ever of Hydrogen gas in a spiral galaxy other than the Milky Way.

Artist's impression of protoplanetary disk
VLA’s Sharpened Vision Sees Still-forming Star
January 8, 2001 at 11:04 pm | News Release

Using a new observing capability of the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope, astronomers have discovered a solar-system-sized disk of gas and dust feeding material onto a young star with 8 to 10 times the mass of the Sun.

Radio and optical images of APM 08279+5255
Young Galaxy is Surrounded by Star Fuel
January 3, 2001 at 10:59 pm | News Release

Looking more than 12 billion years into the past, the scientists found that the young galaxy experiencing a burst of star formation was surrounded by enough cold molecular gas to make 100 billion suns.

The jet from 3c120
Cosmic Collision Between Jet and a Gas Cloud Witnessed
September 28, 2000 at 9:54 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes have discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy 450 million light-years away.

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.

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