Category: Science

  • K-Band Science Using the Green Bank Telescope

    19th – 21st September 2022, Green Bank, WV


  • RAMPS — The Radio Ammonia Mid-Plane Survey

    RAMPS Data Project Summary High-mass stars (M > 8 MSun), though rarer than low-mass stars, are nevertheless a dominant source of energy and chemical enrichment in the interstellar medium (ISM). Because massive stars are rarer and form in denser, more opaque gas, their formation is more difficult to observe and is less well understood than…


  • 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…


  • 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.


  • Galactic and Extragalactic High Velocity Clouds

    High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs), those assemblies of gas around galaxies that do not follow the galactic rotation, have been enigmatic since their discovery almost 60 years ago. Recent observational and theoretical advances have clarified their properties and importance to galaxy formation and evolution. To explore this topic further, a Green Bank Workshop on “Galactic and Extragalactic…


  • GBT & FAST reveal new origins of bright radio flashes in the Universe

    Scientists using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have teamed up to shed light on the origin of the thousands of mysterious fast radio bursts that hit the Earth each day from locations far beyond the Milky Way.


  • 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.”


  • Robust Gas Measurements for BreakBRD Galaxies

    The general view of galaxy quenching is that it takes place from the inside-out, explaining the commonality of non-star forming bulges and actively star forming disks across the galaxy population. However, a fraction of apparently quenching galaxies display opposite behavior: actively star forming bulges and non star-forming disks. These galaxies are dubbed BreakBRDs (“Break Bulges…