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SETI, Breakthrough Listen, and Cornell University Search for Extraterrestrial Pulses in GBT Data
Akshay Suresh, a graduate student at Cornell University, spearheads an extraordinary scientific endeavor — a groundbreaking mission to uncover periodic signals emanating from the core of the Milky Way called the Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS). Such repetitive patterns could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of extraterrestrial intelligence in our…
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GBO Science Newsletter – #AAS242 Edition
GBO @ #AAS242 Find out everything there is to know about GBO at AAS 242! See a list of our latest publications, a digital swag bag, and more. Don’t forget to visit our booth in the exhibit hall!
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Children of GBO Staff Among Recipients of 2023 AUI Scholarship
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GBT Will Receive Simulated Message from Extraterrestrial Intelligence
A Sign in Space imagines how Earth might respond to a signal from aliens and invites the public to help decode an ET message.
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Peculiar Fast Radio Burst Provides Clues to Mysterious Origin
Residing in the heart of a dwarf galaxy four billion light years away is a mysterious cosmological object producing bursts of energy that only last a few milliseconds. New research about this Fast Radio Burst (FRB) has revealed a rarely seen astronomical environment around its source, where magnetic fields twist, turn, and undulate over time.…
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NSF Telescopes Image M87’s Supermassive Black Hole and Massive Jet Together for the First Time
Observations also revealed that the supermassive black hole’s ring is bigger than imagined Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster’s powerful jet and imaged the jet and its source together for the first time. What’s more, the observations have revealed that the…
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West Virginia, Green Bank Observatory, Revitalize Workforce Through Apprenticeships
More and more students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships. Today, the nation’s colleges and universities enroll about 15 million undergraduate students, while companies employ about 800,000 apprentices. But federal data shows that in the past decade college enrollment has declined by about 15 percent, while the number of apprentices has increased by…
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Can We Modernize the National Radio Quiet Zone?
A new Request for Information (RFI) has been issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF), taking first steps to develop effective strategies for improving communications in the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ).