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VLA Image of J1148+5251.
Giant Gas Cloud Made of Atoms Formed in First Stars
July 23, 2003 at 5:23 pm | News Release

Astronomers studying the most distant quasar yet found in the Universe have discovered a massive reservoir of gas containing atoms made in the cores of some of the first stars ever formed.

VLBA station
VLBA’s First Decade
June 11, 2003 at 5:18 pm | News Release

Scientists from around the globe are gathered in Socorro, New Mexico, to mark the tenth anniversary of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) , a continent-wide radio telescope that produces the most detailed images of any instrument available to the world’s astronomers.

VLBA IMAGE of GRB 030329
Crucial Test for Burst Physics
May 28, 2003 at 5:14 pm | News Release

The closest Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) yet known is providing astronomers with a rare opportunity to gain information vital to understanding these powerful cosmic explosions. Extremely precise radio-telescope observations already have ruled out one proposed mechanism for the bursts.

VLBA IMAGES of "Source A" in Arp 299.
VLBA Reveals Dust-Enshrouded ‘Supernova Factory’
May 27, 2003 at 5:12 pm | News Release

Using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope, astronomers have discovered a newly-exploded star, or supernova, hidden deep in a dust-enshrouded supernova factory in a galaxy some 140 million light-years from Earth.

Artist's rendition of the path of satellite galaxy Complex H
GBT Reveals Satellite of Milky Way in Retrograde Orbit
May 22, 2003 at 4:59 pm | News Release

New observations with National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope suggest that what was once believed to be an intergalactic cloud of unknown distance and significance, is actually a previously unrecognized satellite galaxy of the Milky Way orbiting backward around the Galactic center.

PSS J2322+1944
Giant Cosmic Lens Reveals Secrets of Distant Galaxy
April 3, 2003 at 5:49 pm | News Release

An international team of astronomers has discovered that a young galaxy had a central disk of gas in which hundreds of new stars were being born every year — at a time when the Universe was only a fraction of its current age.

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