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News

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    Suggest a name for the VLA

Suggest a new name for the Very Large Array!

October 28, 2011
The most famous radio telescope in the world is about to get a new name. The NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA) is nearing completion of an amazing transformation… Read More
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  • Left to Right: Eduardo Hardy, AUI Representative and NRAO Assistant Director for Chile; Carl Pennypacker, Hands On Universe, University of California, Berkeley; Juan Carlos Avendano, General Manager, Codelco, Radomiro Tomic Chile.
    Left to Right: Eduardo Hardy, AUI Representative and NRAO Assistant Director for Chile; Carl Pennypacker, Hands On Universe, University of California, Berkeley; Juan Carlos Avendano, General Manager, Codelco, Radomiro Tomic Chile. NRAO/AUI

NRAO, AUI Join Chilean Educational Project

October 21, 2011
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), joined the National Copper Corporation of Chile (CODELCO) and the Center for Educational Innovation (CIE) of the University of Antofagasta in a project to build a center for training teachers from throughout Chile in astronomy and science… Read More
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DIRECTOR: NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY

October 1, 2011
Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory… Read More
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Science

  • Composite image of Speca
    Composite image of Speca Hota et al., SDSS, NCRA-TIFR, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Exotic Galaxy Reveals Tantalizing Tale

August 25, 2011
A galaxy with a combination of characteristics never seen before is giving astronomers a tantalizing peek at processes they believe played key roles in the growth of galaxies and clusters of galaxies early in the history of the Universe… Read More
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  • EVLA image of supernova remnant G55.7+3.4 shows previously-unseen filamentary structure
    EVLA image of supernova remnant G55.7+3.4 shows previously-unseen filamentary structure Bhatnagar et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF
  • EVLA radio image shows galaxy GN20, red object at top left, and companions,12 billion light-years distant, in proto-cluster of young galaxies, combined with visible-light Hubble Space Telescope image
    EVLA radio image shows galaxy GN20, red object at top left, and companions,12 billion light-years distant, in proto-cluster of young galaxies, combined with visible-light Hubble Space Telescope image Carilli et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI

Expanded VLA Flexing New Scientific Muscle

May 24, 2011
A new and uniquely powerful tool for cutting-edge science is emerging on the crisp, high desert of western New Mexico. Outwardly, it looks much the same as the famed Very Large Array (VLA), a radio telescope that has spent more than three decades on the frontiers of astronomical research… Read More
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  • Artist's conception of Milky Way, showing locations of star-forming regions whose distances were recently measured.
    Artist's conception of Milky Way, showing locations of star-forming regions whose distances were recently measured. M. Reid, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA; R. Hurt, SSC/JPL/Caltech, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Super-Sharp Radio 'Eye' Remeasuring the Universe

February 19, 2011
Using the super-sharp radio "vision" of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured "yardstick" three times farther into the cosmos than ever before, an achievement with important implications for numerous areas of astrophysics, including determining the nature of Dark Energy, which constitutes 70 percent of the Universe… Read More
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Alma

  • Multiwavelength composite of interacting galaxies NGC 4038/4039
    Multiwavelength composite of interacting galaxies NGC 4038/4039 NRAO/AUI/NSF

First Images from ALMA

October 12, 2011
The detailed views of star-formation in the Antennae Galaxies are the first astronomical test images released to the public from the growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and confirm that this new telescope has surpassed all others of its kind… Read More
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  • 10th Antenna arrives at the ALMA Site ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
    10th Antenna arrives at the ALMA Site ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) J. Guarda (ALMA)

ALMA Invites Proposals for Early Science Observations

March 30, 2011
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most ambitious radio astronomy observatory ever built, is announcing the first opportunity for the worldwide astronomical community to submit proposals for new scientific observations… Read More
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  • The growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array at 16,500 ft elevation in northern Chile. It is only one-third complete, but is already the most powerful telescope of its kind.
    The growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array at 16,500 ft elevation in northern Chile. It is only one-third complete, but is already the most powerful telescope of its kind. NRAO/AUI/NSF

ALMA Opens Its Eyes

March 11, 2011
Thousands of scientists from around the world competed to be the first few researchers to explore some of the darkest, coldest, farthest, and most hidden secrets of the Cosmos with this new astronomical tool… Read More
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