Using the supersharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array, astronomers have made the most precise measurement ever of the distance to a famous star-forming region.
Powerful Radio Burst Indicates New Astronomical Phenomenon
Astronomers studying archival data from an Australian radio telescope have discovered a powerful, short-lived burst of radio waves that they say indicates an entirely new type of astronomical phenomenon.
High-School Teams Joining Massive Pulsar Search
High school students and teachers will join astronomers on the cutting edge of science under a program to be operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and West Virginia University, and funded by the National Science Foundation.
Star Cluster Holds Midweight Black Hole, VLA Indicates
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope have greatly strengthened the case that supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies may have formed through mergers of smaller black holes.
Brown Dwarfs: A New Class of Stellar Lighthouse
Brown dwarfs, thought just a few years ago to be incapable of emitting any significant amounts of radio waves, have been discovered putting out extremely bright lighthouse beams of radio waves, much like pulsars.
VLA Study Reveals ‘Smoking Gun’
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope to image a young, multiple-star system with unprecedented detail, yielding important clues about how such systems are formed.