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The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) is celebrating a historic achievement: research using our…
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery using some of the world’s most advanced radio telescopes. Researchers, led by Fengqiu Adam Dong, a Jansky Fellow at the NSF Green Bank Observatory (NSF GBO), have identified an exceptionally unusual cosmic object known as a Long Period Radio Transient (LPT), named CHIME J1634+44. This object stands out as one of the most polarized LPTs ever discovered, and it is the only one observed to be spinning up (meaning its rotation is speeding up) a phenomenon never seen before in this class of astronomical objects.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region…
A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery using the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF…
A team of chemists and astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of…
The U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Observatory (NSF GBO) is embarking on a crucial maintenance project to protect…
An international team of astronomers has made significant strides in understanding the mysterious jets emanating from supermassive black holes…
NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its…
The element carbon is a building block for life, both on Earth and potentially elsewhere in the vast reaches…
Controlled chaos is a key part of forming massive stars. An international team of astronomers has observed evidence that…