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Space’s Spinning Enigma: A ‘Unicorn’ Object Defies Astrophysics
Breakthrough collaboration between multiple telescopes reveals most unusual long-period radio transient ever found
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Astronomers Discover Massive Molecular Cloud Hidden in Milky Way
Newly discovered Midpoint cloud offers a rare glimpse into star formation and the dynamic flow of galactic material toward the Milky Way’s center
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Data Storage Work
The Green Bank Observatory is in the process of expanding the storage capacity on one of our data storage machines. The work starts Monday, July 14 at 16:00 ET and will continue until all data is successfully restored. Data stored in the GBT Legacy Archive will be unavailable during this period.
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Star Party and book talk
Join us for a Book Talk and Summer Star Party with Dr. Kelsey Johnson, astrophysicist and author most recently of Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos. Dr. Johnson is a professor at the University of Virginia and past-president of the American Astronomical Society; her research focuses primarily on galaxy […]
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Galactic Mystery: How “Ice Cubes” Survive in the Milky Way’s Blazing Bubbles
Astronomers discover fragile hydrogen clouds surviving inside the superheated Fermi Bubbles, revealing the Milky Way’s most extreme outflows are younger and more complex than ever imagined
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MUSTANG2 MaDCoWS Data
The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS) is a catalog of >2000 massive galaxy clusters at z~1. The goal of this GBT observing program was to observe many of the most massive MaDCoWS clusters with MUSTANG2 in order to obtain a Sunyeav-Zeldovich Effect mass estimate. 26 MaDCoWS clusters were observed and the resulting […]
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26A Semester
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory/Green Bank Observatory (NRAO/GBO) Call for Proposals for the Semester 2026A will close on Wednesday, 30 July at 22:00 UTC (5:00 P.M. ET). The Semester 2026A Proposal Call information can be viewed here.
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Greenbrier valley archaeology: Findings at fort warwick
Join us at the Green Bank Science Center for an evening of archaeology as Drs. Kim and Stephen McBride present the latest results from the extensive archaeological excavations recently completed at Fort Warwick, a historical site right here in Green Bank, WV! Fort Warwick was a frontier structure built in 1774 as a militia outpost, […]