ALMA achieves ‘first light’ VLBI observation.
ALMA Residencia Construction to Start
Contract awarded to build new residence for staff and visitors at ALMA.
Improved Saturn Positions Help Spacecraft Navigation, Planet Studies, Fundamental Physics
Scientists have used the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system and NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to measure the position of Saturn and its family of moons to within about a mile — at a range of nearly a billion miles.
New VLA Observing System Completed, Begins Scientific Operations
A new system that makes the Karl G Jansky Very Large Array two telescopes in one has been completed and its scientific operations are underway.
NRAO Media Tip Sheet September 2014
ALMA finds new organic molecule; VLA reveals details of still-forming planetary system; NRAO patent for new radio synthesizer.
Radio Telescopes Settle Controversy Over Distance to Pleiades
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.