Tip Sheet – Page 2 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

NRAO Media Tip Sheet: May 2016

ALMA sees cometary debris, VLBA samples of young radio galaxies, and NRAO engineering achievements.

Details of Jet from Black Hole, Maser Distance Measure, and New APS Fellow.

ALMA finds new organic molecule; VLA reveals details of still-forming planetary system; NRAO patent for new radio synthesizer.

VLBA measures expansion in the current Universe; VLA measures starting temperature for star formation; RATs celebrate 25th anniversary at Green Bank.

GBT images asteroid with radar from Arecibo and links with global millimeter-wavelength telescopes.

Astronomers make distance measurement, GBT gets new spectrometer, and protoplanetary disks bulge are topics in March tip sheet.

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