Category: News

  • The Green Bank Telescope & Next Generation RADAR

    The Next Generation Radar program (ngRADAR) is a collaboration between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Green Bank Observatory (GBO), and Raytheon Space & Intelligence. Together they will create an active radar system for GBO’s 100-meter Green Bank Telescope (GBT) using the latest solid-state technology. For twenty years, Green Bank Observatory’s 100-meter radio telescope has…

  • Volunteers Build Bird Boxes to Support Local Ecosystems & Citizen Science

    This past spring, the Green Bank Observatory and the Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area hosted an event with the Deer Creek Defenders 4-H club to build nesting boxes for the Green Bank and Arborvale bird population. This project was managed by AmeriCorp staffer Joe Medica.

  • 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.

  • Celebrate the Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse at Green Bank Observatory

    Sunday, May 15th a total lunar eclipse of a supermoon will be visible to most of us in West Virginia (weather permitting) between the hours of 10:30pm and 2am Eastern Time. The start and end of the lunar eclipse’s ‘totality’ is between 11:30pm and 1am. No special equipment is needed to view a lunar eclipse,…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Drake Lecture: Alyssa Goodman

    Saturday April 23rd, 7pm Dr. Alyssa Goodman is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a Research Associate at Smithsonian Institution. She will share her amazing experience as an astronomer and about data visualization as the next frontier in astronomy and astrophysics.  The Drake Lecture honors the legacy of Frank Drake, who created his…

  • 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.