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Green Bank Student Scientists Launch Massive Balloon for Airborne Experiments
Budding scientists in Green Bank, West Virginia will embark on a new mission next week. Students in Ms. Brown’s 7th grade class have planned extensively to launch a 12-foot diameter, high altitude helium balloon to conduct several scientific experiments.
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Future of Earth’s Defense is Ground-based Planetary Radar
Green Bank Telescope will be largest fully steerable antenna in the world capable of transmitting radar signals for research Powerful radar systems have played a major role in the study of planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in our Solar System for several decades, and now have a “unique role” to play in planetary defense…
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Alyssa Goodman, Drake Lecture Award Winner
Award honoring legacy of Frank Drake returns April 23rd to Green Bank Observatory Watch a recording of this lecture here.
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Green Bank hosts new telescope for CHIME
In the quest to identify the origins of one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries – fast radio bursts (FRBs) – Canada’s world-renowned telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), is getting backup.
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Are we alone? New grant supports citizen science searching for intelligent life with the GBT
The Planetary Society has awarded nearly $50,000 to UCLA Professor Jean-Luc Margot for a new citizen science project using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), “Are We Alone? A Citizen-Science-Enabled Search for Technosignatures.”
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Orion rising over GBT (taken by WV photographer) is NASA’s Astronomy Photo of the Day
West Virginia photographer Dave Green created the amazing astrophotography image seen above, which shows the constellations of Barnard’s Loop, the Horsehead, Lambda Orionis, and more above the GBT.
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Share your AAS presentation
A symposium of Green Bank Telescope/Observatory-associated presentations intended for the AAS Winter meeting will be held on Wednesday February 2 at 2pm EST. If you have a presentation you’d like to share, please email Green Bank Observatory Post Doc Jesse Bublitz at ude.o1732241646arn@z1732241646tilbu1732241646bj1732241646 by this Friday January 21 with your name, affiliation, title of your…