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The Milky Way Explorer

Posted on April 2, 2014March 28, 2017

The latest NRAO Explorer interactive is a tour of our Milky Way Galaxy, with real astronomers as hosts, and provides exciting news about a supermassive black hole that is about the feed on an unlucky cloud of gas.

NRAO Media Tip Sheet: November 2013

Posted on November 26, 2013March 31, 2017

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

Astrophysicist Charles Bennett Receives 2013 Jansky Lectureship Award

Posted on September 26, 2013

AUI and NRAO award the 2013 Jansky Lectureship to Charles Bennett

Astrophysicist Charles Bennett Receives 2013 Jansky Lectureship Award

Posted on September 24, 2013

Astrophysicist Charles Bennett Receives 2013 Jansky Lectureship Award

Copy of AUI and WVU Sign $1 Million Agreement with NRAO

Posted on September 23, 2013March 28, 2017

AUI and NRAO signed agreement with WVU to Use GBT

Artist's impression of Voyager 1's position on the sky when observed by the Very Long Baseline Array

Voyager 1 Spotted from Earth with VLBA and GBT Telescopes

Posted on September 12, 2013April 6, 2017

Earlier this year, the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array telescope turned its gaze to NASA’s famed Voyager 1 and captured an image of this iconic spacecraft’s faint radio signal.

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