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AI Uncovers 72 New FRBs in GBT’s Breakthrough Listen Data
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Radio Observations Confirm Superfast Jet of Material From Neutron Star Merger
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Einstein Gets it Right Again
Even Phenomenally Dense Neutron Stars Fall like a Feather
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Observatories Team Up to Reveal Rare Double Asteroid
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Even Phenomenally Dense Neutron Stars Fall like a Feather
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2019A Semester Call for Proposals is Now Live
The Green Bank Observatory invites scientists to participate in the 2019A Semester Call for Proposals for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The entire proposal call can be found here. The submission deadline for Semester 2019A proposals is Wednesday, 1 August 2018, at 17:00 EDT (21:00 UTC).
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Diamond Dust Shimmering around Distant Stars
Nanoscale gemstones source of mysterious cosmic microwave light Some of the tiniest diamonds in the universe – bits of crystalline carbon hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand – have been detected swirling around three infant star systems in the Milky Way. These microscopic gemstones are neither rare nor precious; they…
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Astronomers solve cosmic “whodunit” with interstellar forensics
Summary: By comparing new Hubble observations with data from the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered the origin of a huge cloud of gas bridging the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, two dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. In a cosmic version of tug-of-war, the Large Magellanic Cloud is using its…