Latest NRAO News

News is managed by NRAO News & Public Information. Questions about News? Have a story to share? Want to interview a scientist or create new media about our telescopes?

RSS

Search Results

Search Terms: VLA

Showing results 181 - 190 of 236
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.

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.

Cloverleaf galaxy
Furious Star Formation in Distant Galaxy
December 10, 2003 at 7:06 pm | News Release

Astronomers have discovered a key signpost of rapid star formation in a galaxy 11 billion light-years from Earth, seen as it was when the Universe was only 20 percent of its current age.

Artist's Conception of Twin Jets in Energetic Cosmic Explosion.
Cosmic Explosions Have Common Origin
November 12, 2003 at 6:55 pm | News Release

A Fourth of July fireworks display features bright explosions that light the sky with different colors, yet all have the same cause.

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.

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.

Path of T Tauri Component Sb
Young Star Probably Ejected From Triple System
January 8, 2003 at 4:54 pm | News Release

Astronomers analyzing nearly 20 years of data from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope have discovered that a small star in a multiple-star system in the constellation Taurus probably has been ejected from the system after a close encounter with one of the system’s more-massive components, presumed to be a compact double star. This is the first time any such event has been observed.

Combined HST and VLA image of the galaxy 0313-192
Giant Radio Jet Coming From Wrong Kind of Galaxy
January 8, 2003 at 4:51 pm | News Release

Giant jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light have been found coming from thousands of galaxies across the Universe, but always from elliptical galaxies or galaxies in the process of merging — until now.

NGC 326
Scientists Detect ‘Smoking Gun’ of Colliding Black Holes
August 1, 2002 at 3:20 pm | News Release

Images from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope have uncovered compelling evidence that supermassive black holes at the hearts of large galaxies collide when their host galaxies merge.

Dr. John M. Grunsfeld
Astronaut Returns Space-Flown Flag to NRAO
April 13, 2002 at 2:00 pm | News Release

A NASA Astronaut who carried a flag bearing the logo of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on last month’s Shuttle flight returned that flag to the observatory on Friday, April 12, at a ceremony in Socorro.

Showing results 181 - 190 of 236