AAS241 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Radio Astronomy Tells a Cloudy Tale

Galaxies are often surrounded by a halo of hydrogen gas. Over time a galaxy can lose this halo, which…

Super Star Clusters (SSCs) are dense clusters of bright young stars. As they evolve their intense radiation can clear…

It takes a lot of images to map the heavens. In order for the Very Large Array Sky Survey…

The formation of a star has a simple tale. A region of interstellar gas collapses under its own weight,…

Globular clusters are dense spherical groupings of stars. They are old and hold clues about the history and evolution…

Radio telescopes such as the Very Large Array (VLA) use an array of antenna dishes to collect faint radio…

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