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Category: Front Page News

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February 21, 2020
Looping Radio Signal Baffles Astronomers

Scientists have detected the first reliable radio signal pattern in space … The transmission broadcasts from a galaxy half a billion light years away. Can radio astronomy catch up and solve the mystery? Read the full story on the Great Courses

February 19, 2020
Breakthrough Listen Releases 2 PB of Data from SETI Survey of Milky Way

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative today (Friday, Feb. 14) released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane of the Milky Way galaxy and the region around its central black hole, and it is inviting the public to search the data for signals from intelligent civilizations.

February 16, 2020
GBT Detects Super-Quiet Repeating Fast Radio Burst

Recently, the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) confirmed the detection of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB). The super-sensitive GBT was able to confirm that the radio burst from FRB 171019, initially detected by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope, did repeat. This detection lends credence to the theory that almost all fast…

February 4, 2020
WPHS Astronomy Students Present On World Stage

Two Wheeling Middle School astronomy students reached for the stars two years ago to learn about pulsars, and this month they presented the results of their research to the world’s scientific community in Honolulu. Read the whole story …

January 23, 2020
The Observer – Special AAS 235 Edition

Note from the Director By the time this newsletter reaches publication, we will have entered into the 2020’s, and will likewise have marked the 6th decade of radio astronomy and education programs here in Green Bank, West Virginia.

January 6, 2020
From West Virginia to Hawaii: Green Bank Observatory Shares Innovation with 3,000 Astronomers

December 20, 2019
Green Bank Observatory Offers Employment Training with Generation West Virginia

December 10, 2019