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New Interim Director for the NSF Green Bank Observatory
New Interim Director for the NSF Green Bank Observatory
February 10, 2025 at 8:56 am | News Feature

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) has named an interim director for the NSF…

A New Era of Data Compatibility in Astronomy
A New Era of Data Compatibility in Astronomy
February 6, 2025 at 8:00 am | News Release

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the…

NSF VLA Contributes Crucial Puzzle Piece to ‘Peculiar’ High Energy Transient
NSF VLA Contributes Crucial Puzzle Piece to ‘Peculiar’ High Energy Transient
January 27, 2025 at 9:00 am | News Release

High-energy transient signals are most often determined to be gamma-ray burst events, but the recently-launched Einstein Probe has expanded astronomers’ ability to quickly respond to similar signals occurring at X-ray wavelengths.

Double the Disks, Double the Discovery: New Insights into Planet Formation in DF Tau
Double the Disks, Double the Discovery: New Insights into Planet Formation in DF Tau
January 16, 2025 at 10:15 am | News Release

Tucked away in a star-forming region in the Taurus constellation, a pair of circling stars are displaying some unexpected…

Young Stars in the Milky Way’s Backyard Challenge Our Understanding of How They Form
Young Stars in the Milky Way’s Backyard Challenge Our Understanding of How They Form
January 15, 2025 at 2:15 pm | News Release

Astronomers have made groundbreaking discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb…

Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole
Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole
January 13, 2025 at 10:15 am | News Release

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities including the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA).

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