Radio Telescopes – Page 17 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

ALMA Upgrade to Supercharge Event Horizon Telescope, Astronomy’s ‘Killer App’

Posted on June 4, 2014August 27, 2025

Upgrade to ALMA soon will help astronomers make the first images of a black hole as part of the Event Horizon Telescope.

NRAO, WVU Expand Broadband Data Network to Bolster Astronomy Research

Posted on April 9, 2014March 28, 2017

The NRAO and West Virginia University (WVU) have inaugurated a new super high-speed broadband data network to bolster collaboration and scientific research.

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

New System Makes the VLA Two Telescopes in One

Posted on December 10, 2013April 6, 2017

The VLA will get a new system allowing it to continuously monitor the sky to study the ionosphere and detect short bursts of radio emission from astronomical objects.

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.

ALMA Reveals Ghostly Shape of Coldest Place in the Universe

Posted on October 23, 2013May 23, 2017

At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin, the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe.

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