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News

  • Committee on the Future of U.S. Radio Astronomy Final Report
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November 10, 2008

Committee on the Future of U.S. Radio Astronomy Final Report Released!

Revised February, 2009
In 2007, AUI convened a Committee on the Future of U.S. Radio Astronomy. The goal of the committee was to consider the likely scientific directions for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade. The committee’s findings are now available. Read More

Science News

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May 21, 2009

Missing Link Revealing Fast-Spinning Pulsar Mysteries

Astronomers have discovered a unique double-star system that represents a “missing link” stage in what they believe is the birth process of the most rapidly-spinning stars in the Universe—millisecond pulsars... Read More

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February 12, 2009

Astronomers Unveiling Life's Cosmic Origins

Processes that laid the foundation for life on Earth — star and planet formation and the production of complex organic molecules in interstellar space — are yielding their secrets to astronomers armed with powerful new research tools, and even better tools soon will be available... Read More

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January 05, 2009

Milky Way a Swifter Spinner, More Massive, New Measurements Show

Fasten your seat belts — we're faster, heavier, and more likely to collide than we thought. Astronomers making high-precision measurements of the Milky Way say our home Galaxy is rotating about 100,000 miles per hour faster than previously understood... Read More

ALMA Update

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  • <p>DV01 and PM03 pointing at Mars, 30 April 2009 </p>
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April 30, 2009

Continuing Progress on ALMA

ALMA construction, integration and testing continues, with two significant new achievements at the ALMA site in Chile... Read More

  • Major components of the AEM antenna, contracted by ESO, have arrived at that contractor's area at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) in northern Chile.
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April 22, 2009

Two Antennas Working Together

Major components of the AEM antenna, contracted by ESO, have arrived at that contractor's area at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) in northern Chile... Read More

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February 06, 2009

First North American Antenna enables next phase in ALMA Observatory

Astronomers celebrated today the formal acceptance of the first North American antenna by the Joint ALMA Observatory. ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is a gathering armada of short-wavelength radio telescopes whose combined power will enable astronomers to probe with unprecedented sharpness phenomena and regions that are beyond the reach of visible-light telescopes... Read More