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Artist impression of a pulsar, white dwarf, and white dwarf triple system
Pulsar in Stellar Triple System
January 5, 2014 at 6:00 pm | News Release

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.

Graphic depicting binary star system formation
New Studies Give Boost to Binary Star Formation Theory
December 31, 2013 at 3:42 pm | News Release

Using the new capabilities of the upgraded VLA, scientists have discovered previously unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars.

N2D+ ALMA data on artist's impression background
Starless Cloud Cores Reveal Why Some Stars Are Bigger Than Others
December 20, 2013 at 4:00 pm | News Release

Massive stars – those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun – present an intriguing mystery: how…

VLA receiver
New System Makes the VLA Two Telescopes in One
December 10, 2013 at 3:00 pm | News Release

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.

Composite image of starburst galaxy M82
Hidden Details Revealed in Nearby Starburst Galaxy
December 9, 2013 at 7:00 pm | News Release

Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the GBT, astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82.

NRAO Media Tip Sheet: November 2013
NRAO Media Tip Sheet: November 2013
November 26, 2013 at 12:00 pm | Tip Sheet

VLBI between West Virginia and Shanghai and the world’s first radio sundial.

Himiko
Infant Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’
November 21, 2013 at 2:29 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have…

UGC 10288 and background galaxy
Surprising Image Provides New Tool for Studying a Galaxy
November 13, 2013 at 5:50 pm | News Release

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.

Artist's impression of Smith Cloud and Milky Way
Magnetic Force Field Shields Giant Gas Cloud
October 30, 2013 at 8:05 pm | News Release

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.

The Boomerang Nebula
ALMA Reveals Ghostly Shape of Coldest Place in the Universe
October 23, 2013 at 1:16 pm | News Release

At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin, the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe.

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