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ALMA Has Successfully Restarted Observations
December 19, 2022 at 10:01 am | Announcement

Forty-eight days after suspending observations due to a cyberattack, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is observing the sky again. The computing staff has worked diligently to rebuild the affected JAO computer system servers and services. This is a crucial milestone in the recovery process. 

VLA and ALMA Study Jupiter and Io
VLA and ALMA Study Jupiter and Io
December 13, 2022 at 4:40 am | Tip Sheet

VLA teams up with Juno spacecraft to study Jupiter’s atmosphere, and ALMA reveals new details about Io’s volcanoes.

Photo of the VLA telescope on a sunny day.
Silent as the Night: Why Radio Astronomy Doesn’t Listen to the Sky
December 8, 2022 at 10:00 am | News Feature

In the 1997 movie Contact, Ellie Arroway is a young radio astronomer played by Jodie Foster. Ellie’s on a mission…

NRAO Director Tony Beasley and UNAM Director Enrique Graue Wiechers sign the MOU.
NRAO Signs Cooperative Agreement with UNAM For Development of the Next Generation Very Large Array
November 21, 2022 at 9:23 am | Announcement

The U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing their collaboration on the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA), a new radio observatory currently in design and development at NRAO.

Update: ALMA’s Recovery from October 29 Cyberattack
Update: ALMA’s Recovery from October 29 Cyberattack
November 18, 2022 at 12:00 pm | Announcement

On October 29, 2022, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) suffered a cyberattack. We are working hard to resume observations before the end of the year.

Baseline #13 – Sagittarius A*: Monster in the Milky Way
Baseline #13 – Sagittarius A*: Monster in the Milky Way
October 31, 2022 at 7:00 am | News Feature

In the center of the Milky Way there is a black hole more massive than 4 million Suns. It’s known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, and it’s hidden behind the dust of our galactic center. So how can astronomers see it?

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