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140-Foot Radio Telescope.
Helium-3 Traces Matter in the Milky Way
January 2, 2002 at 7:03 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s 140 Foot Radio Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, were able to infer the amount of matter created by the Big Bang.

The VLA
National Science Board Approves VLA Expansion
November 20, 2001 at 12:23 am | Announcement

The National Science Board, the governing body for the National Science Foundation (NSF), has approved an expansion project for the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico.

Planetary Nebula K3-35
Star Caught in the Act of Planetary Nebula Formation
November 15, 2001 at 12:20 am | News Release

A team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope has caught an old star during the very brief period of its transformation into a planetary nebula, a shining bubble of glowing gas with a hot remnant star at its center.

Runners at the VLA
Flags Across America Comes to the VLA
November 8, 2001 at 12:16 am | News Release

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory hosted the runners and support personnel of the Americans United Flag Across America run as the transcontinental memorial and fundraising effort came through New Mexico.

140-foot telescope
Radio Emission Found from Rapidly Rotating Dust Grains
November 7, 2001 at 12:12 am | News Release

Astronomers have made the first tentative observations of the faint, tell-tale signals of what appear to be dust grains spinning billions of times each second.

Jim Ulvestad
New Head of New Mexico Operations Announced
October 25, 2001 at 11:10 pm | Announcement

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has named Jim Ulvestad the new Assistant Director for New Mexico Operations in Socorro, New Mexico, effective December 15.

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