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Radio Telescopes Settle Controversy Over Distance to Pleiades

Posted on August 28, 2014March 23, 2017

Astronomers have used a worldwide network of radio telescopes to resolve a controversy over the distance to a famous star cluster — a controversy that posed a potential challenge to scientists’ basic understanding of how stars form and evolve.

NRAO Media Tip Sheet June 2014

Posted on June 27, 2014March 31, 2017

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

NRAO Media Tip Sheet: February 2014

Posted on February 26, 2014March 31, 2017

Merging galaxy clusters, big boost for big data, and exciting sessions at the 2014 AAAS meeting

Artist impression of a pulsar, white dwarf, and white dwarf triple system

Pulsar in Stellar Triple System

Posted on January 5, 2014March 28, 2017

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.

Surprising Image Provides New Tool for Studying a Galaxy

Posted on November 13, 2013April 6, 2017

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

Posted on October 30, 2013June 5, 2019

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.

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