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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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…
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Orion rising over GBT (taken by WV photographer) is NASA’s Astronomy Photo of the Day
West Virginia photographer Dave Green created the amazing astrophotography image seen above, which shows the constellations of Barnard’s Loop, the Horsehead, Lambda Orionis, and more above the GBT.