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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.

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.

VLA image of GRB 980703
Gamma-ray Burst Reveals Secrets of Host Galaxy
June 5, 2001 at 10:44 pm | News Release

A team of observers used a gamma-ray burst as a powerful tool to unveil the nature of the galaxy in which it occurred, more than 7 billion light-years away.

Scorpius X-1, showing a flare of the object's core.
Dramatic Movie of a Cosmic Jet
May 24, 2001 at 10:38 pm | News Release

Astronomers using a world-wide collection of radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, have made a dramatic movie of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light.

The VLA 11
First Radio Emission Seen from a Brown Dwarf
March 14, 2001 at 11:24 pm | News Release

A group of summer students making a long-shot astronomical gamble with the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array have found the first radio emission ever detected from a brown dwarf.

False-color image of M33
Unprecedented Detail of Neighbor Galaxy
January 9, 2001 at 11:09 pm | News Release

Using radio telescopes in the United States and Europe, astronomers have made the most detailed images ever of Hydrogen gas in a spiral galaxy other than the Milky Way.

Artist's impression of protoplanetary disk
VLA’s Sharpened Vision Sees Still-forming Star
January 8, 2001 at 11:04 pm | News Release

Using a new observing capability of the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope, astronomers have discovered a solar-system-sized disk of gas and dust feeding material onto a young star with 8 to 10 times the mass of the Sun.

Radio and optical images of APM 08279+5255
Young Galaxy is Surrounded by Star Fuel
January 3, 2001 at 10:59 pm | News Release

Looking more than 12 billion years into the past, the scientists found that the young galaxy experiencing a burst of star formation was surrounded by enough cold molecular gas to make 100 billion suns.

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