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- - - Visit the Green Bank Science Center
      
      Everything you need to know about visiting Green Bank including our tours, the Exhibit Hall, our Gift Shop, and the Starlight Café.
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- - - Educational Programs
      
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- - - Students forming a human pyramid in front of the 40 Foot Educational Telescope
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- - - Science at the Green Bank Observatory
      
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About
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Category: Science

01/11/2016: Tabby’s mystery – Something 20 times Jupiter’s size may be orbiting a nearby star

The graph made astronomer Tabetha “Tabby” Boyajian sit up at her desk at Yale University. Something was definitely strange — the line was mostly flat but had two sharp dips resembling stalactites hanging from the ceiling of a cave. The dips implied that light coming from the star KIC 8462852, more than 1,400 light years away,…

January 11, 2016
01/04/2016: Watch this space: Telescope releases mass of data

Astronomers in China working with one of world’s largest optical telescopes released a huge collection of data over the new year holiday, increasing the chances of “significant findings” in space exploration, experts say. The latest update to the National Astronomical Observatories’ sky survey, conducted using the LAMOST telescope, includes some 4.62 million spectral data relating…

January 4, 2016