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Artist's impression of pulsar array
Race to Detect Gravitational Waves Advances: New NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center
March 30, 2015 at 2:30 pm | News Release

GBT to join the hunt for gravity waves as NSF awards NANOGrav PFC.

Venus
Image Release: Venus Revealed in Radio Light
March 9, 2015 at 7:00 pm | News Release

GBT partners with Arecibo to reveal the hidden surface of Venus.

Animation of asteroid 2004 BL86
Image Release: High-Def Radar Images of Near-Earth Asteroid
January 30, 2015 at 6:45 pm | News Release

GBT helps with landmark observation of near-Earth asteroid.

NRAO’s Top 10 Radio Hits of 2014
NRAO’s Top 10 Radio Hits of 2014
December 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm | Announcement

 Looking back at the science news released by NRAO in 2014, the staff scientists at NRAO selected what they believed were the top 10 stories based on both scientific impact and public interest.

Artist's impression of the Milky Way
Milky Way Ransacks Nearby Dwarf Galaxies, Stripping All Traces of Star-Forming Gas
October 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm | News Release

The Milky Way is stripping all traces of star-forming gas from nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

Slice of the Laniakea Supercluster
Newly Identified Galactic Supercluster Is Home to the Milky Way
September 3, 2014 at 5:00 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the GBT find Milky Way is part of ginormous supercluster of galaxies called Laniakea.

Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and OMC -2/3 filament
Orion Rocks! Pebble-size Particles May Kick Start Planet Formation
August 27, 2014 at 3:00 pm | News Release

Star-forming filaments in Orion are brimming with dust grains of unusual size.

Pulsar PSR J2222-0137 and white dwarf
Remarkable White Dwarf Star Possibly Coldest, Dimmest Ever Detected
June 23, 2014 at 4:00 pm | News Release

A team of astronomers using the GBT and VLBA has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected.

False-color image of the Smith Cloud
Failed Dwarf Galaxy Survives Galactic Collision Thanks to Full Dark-Matter Jacket
May 23, 2014 at 3:00 pm | News Release

A high-velocity hydrogen cloud hurtling toward the Milky Way appears to be encased in a shell of dark matter, according to a new analysis of data from the GBT.

Mare Serenitatis / Sea of Serenity
Image Release: Sea of Serenity and Aristillus Crater
May 14, 2014 at 8:00 pm | News Release

New images of the Moon made with GBT and Arecibo collaboration reveal stunning subsurface features.

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