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Scott Kirkpatrick
AUI President Dr. Ethan J. Schreier presents 10 Year Service Certificate to Patrick W. Donahoe
June 22, 2010
Associated Universities, Inc. held their June Board of Trustees Meeting at the University of Colorado at Boulder from June 17-18… Read More
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NRAO/AUI/NSF
NRAO Astronomer Wins Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
April 15, 2010
Dr. Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, according to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation… Read More
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MESSAGE FROM AUI PRESIDENT ON THE CHILE EARTHQUAKE
March 1, 2010
We are sure you all know about the devastating earthquake in Chile that took place early Saturday morning, February 28th, with aftershocks continuing through the weekend… Read More
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Science
NRAO/AUI/NSF
Radio Astronomers Develop New Technique for Studying Dark Energy
July 21, 2010
Pioneering observations with the National Science Foundation's giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have given astronomers a new tool for mapping large cosmic structures… Read More
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Artist conception shows Milky Way regions studied, with hydrogen clouds more abundant in region above area where central bar merges with spiral arm. Bright point at bottom center is location of our Solar System. Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
Astronomers Discover Clue to Origin of Milky Way Gas Clouds
May 26, 2010
A surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance in and above our
Milky Way Galaxy have preferred locations has given astronomers a key clue about the origin of such clouds, which play an important part in
galaxy evolution… Read More
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Artist Conception of the Milky Way NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech)
Astronomers Discover New Star-Forming Regions in Milky Way
May 25, 2010
Astronomers studying the Milky Way have discovered a large number of previously-unknown regions where massive stars are being formed… Read More
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Alma
ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) photo by Nick Whyborn, 3 June 2010
ALMA at 5 Antennas
June 15, 2010
On 29 April Vertex antenna DV03 was moved to the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 16500 ft elevation, bringing the array there briefly to four antennas—one antenna was taken back down to the Operations Support Facility for upgrades, and the array fell back to three… Read More
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3 Antennas at ALMA’s high-elevation Array Operations Site NRAO/NSF/AUI
ALMA Test Sharpens the Vision of New Observatory
January 4, 2010
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has passed a key milestone crucial to producing the high-quality images that will be the trademark of this revolutionary new tool for astronomy… Read More
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First Three Antennas on the Chajnantor Plateau NRAO/AUI
ALMA Construction: And Then There Were Three by Al Wootten
December 1, 2009
On 20 November, a third antenna joined the two ALMA antennas undergoing verification phases of interferometry at the 5000m Array Operation Site (AOS)… Read More
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