Astronomers using the GBT have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
Using the new capabilities of the upgraded VLA, scientists have discovered previously unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars.
Massive stars – those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun – present an intriguing mystery: how…
The VLA will get a new system allowing it to continuously monitor the sky to study the ionosphere and detect short bursts of radio emission from astronomical objects.
Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the GBT, astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82.
VLBI between West Virginia and Shanghai and the world’s first radio sundial.
Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have…
Astronomers studying gas halos around nearby galaxies were surprised Very Large Array showed that one of their subjects is not a single galaxy, but two, superimposed on the sky to masquerade as one.
Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy.
At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin, the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe.