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VLBA Sets New Standard for Accurate Cosmic Distance Measurement
June 1, 1999 at 2:47 pm | News Release

A team of radio astronomers has used the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to make the most accurate measurement ever made of the distance to a faraway galaxy.

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VLBA Detects Sun’s Orbit in the Galaxy
June 1, 1999 at 2:45 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s powerful Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope have made a new and more accurate determination of just how long it takes us to circle our Galaxy — 226 million years.

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VLBA Scientists Study Birth of Sun-like Stars
June 1, 1999 at 2:44 pm | News Release

Three teams of scientists have used the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope to learn tantalizing new details about how Sun-like stars are formed.

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Continent-spanning Telescope Blazes Trails
June 1, 1999 at 2:43 pm | News Release

The supersharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array is revealing unprecedented details of astronomical objects from stars in our own cosmic neighborhood to galaxies billions of light-years away.

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Astronomers’ DIY Project Reopening Window on the Universe
May 31, 1999 at 2:42 pm | News Release

A team of astronomers has revealed tantalizing new information about the explosions of massive stars, the workings of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, and clusters of galaxies.

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Superfast Cosmic Jet Hits the Wall
January 9, 1999 at 3:40 pm | News Release

A superfast jet of subatomic particles presumably powered by the gravitational energy of a black hole has collided with nearby material, been slowed dramatically and released much of its energy in the collision, radio astronomers report.

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