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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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Cosmic Chemistry Breakthrough: Largest Aromatic Molecule Found in Deep Space
Discovery of seven-ring cyanocoronene in a star-forming cloud challenges assumptions about the abundance and formation of complex organic molecules in the universe
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NSF’s ongoing technical coordination with satellite constellation operators
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Contents of the Fermi Bubbles and Related Topics
Contents of the Fermi Bubbles and Related Topics The Green Bank Observatory is hosting a workshop May 5th to May 7th 2025 on the Fermi Bubbles in honor of Jay Lockman’s 50+ years of service to NRAO/GBO. The Fermi Bubbles are a striking signature of the large-scale, multi-phase galactic outflow originating from the center of…
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GBT Surveys of the 21-cm Sky
ALPACA, the Advanced L-band Phased Array Camera for Astronomy, is a phased-array receiver capable of providing high sensitivity observations simultaneously for 40 beams on the GBT in the 1-2 GHz band.
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Black Hole Jets Reveal New Insights into the Most Powerful Phenomena in the Universe
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Students Contribute to New Understanding of “Twinkling” Pulsars
Outreach-focused research using radio telescope uncovers surprising results about galactic structure The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) 20-meter Telescope at Green Bank Observatory is often used for educational outreach projects with undergraduate and high school students. The 20-meter’s flexible observing setup enabled frequent, long-duration observations of eight pulsars, spanning two…
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Black Hole Explorer Hopes to Reveal New Details of Supermassive Black Holes
CfA and NSF NRAO combine forces to take the Event Horizon Telescope to space