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GBT Will Receive Simulated Message from Extraterrestrial Intelligence
A Sign in Space imagines how Earth might respond to a signal from aliens and invites the public to help decode an ET message.
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23B Semester
23B Proposal Call The Green Bank Observatory (GBO) invites scientists to participate in the 2023B Semester Call for Proposals for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The submission deadline for Semester 2023B proposals is Wednesday, 1 February 2023, at 17:00 EDT (22:00 UTC). The entire proposal call can be found on this page. We would like […]
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Peculiar Fast Radio Burst Provides Clues to Mysterious Origin
Residing in the heart of a dwarf galaxy four billion light years away is a mysterious cosmological object producing bursts of energy that only last a few milliseconds. New research about this Fast Radio Burst (FRB) has revealed a rarely seen astronomical environment around its source, where magnetic fields twist, turn, and undulate over time. […]
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Participant Bios
Erica Barlow Penn State University Dr. Erica Barlow is based at Pennsylvania State University, where she is a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow with the Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures. Erica specialises in morphological, textural, and isotopic biosignatures in rocks from the early Earth. Her current research utilises field observations and a range of analytical lab techniques […]
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Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Radio Astronomy
Pictured above: Green Bank Observatory is home to a replica of the rotating directional antenna that Carl Jansky designed and used to first detect radio waves from an extraterrestrial source. This source was later discovered to be Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Miky Way Galaxy! Join us for a […]
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NSF Telescopes Image M87’s Supermassive Black Hole and Massive Jet Together for the First Time
Observations also revealed that the supermassive black hole’s ring is bigger than imagined Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster’s powerful jet and imaged the jet and its source together for the first time. What’s more, the observations have revealed that the […]
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West Virginia, Green Bank Observatory, Revitalize Workforce Through Apprenticeships
More and more students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships. Today, the nation’s colleges and universities enroll about 15 million undergraduate students, while companies employ about 800,000 apprentices. But federal data shows that in the past decade college enrollment has declined by about 15 percent, while the number of apprentices has increased by […]
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A Sign in Space
This Contest Has Ended. See the Award Announcement Here! Join us for a Creative Writing and Visual Arts Contest! Humans have long wondered whether there might be other forms of intelligent life in the Universe. Since the 1960s, astronomers have been looking for radio signals that might be coming from extraterrestrial civilizations. What would it […]