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GBT@20 Data Image Contest Winners Announced

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We are very excited to announce the winners to our GBT@20 contest, using actual GBT data to create images!

First Place: Annika Kreikenbohm, a still from a 3D mapping/animation of the maser disk in galaxy NGC 1194, culminating from 7 years of data.

Second Place: Kat Barger, a still from a3D mapping/animation of Complex A, a high velocity gas cloud, and its Hydrogen gas distribution that rotates through position and velocity maps.

Third Place: Preet Agnihotri, with GBT data adapted into a composite image and sonification.

Honorable Mention: Preet Agnihotri, with more GBT data adapted into a composite image and sonification.

Honorable Mention: A composite image created by Emily Moravec.

Honorable Mention: Jeremy Thorley, who produced a 3D printed lamp using GBT data and Observatory logo.

“Don’t give up, it will happen.” Virtual Workshop Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Green Bank Telescope

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Just over twenty years ago, in the summer of the year 2000, the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) was dedicated for service. Taller than the Statue of Liberty, with a dish that can hold two football fields, the GBT remains the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world. To celebrate the creation of such a colossal instrument, and the scientific research made possible, the Observatory will be holding a special virtual workshop April 21st to 22nd, GBT@20: Twenty Years of Innovation and Discovery.

Construction of the unprecedented design of the Green Bank Telescope took ten years. NSF/NRAO
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Earth Is Safe From Asteroid Apophis for 100-Plus Years

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Green Bank Telescope Teams Up With NASA’s JPL Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex to Track Asteroid

The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out.

This image is taken from an animation showing the distance between the Apophis asteroid and Earth at the time of the asteroid’s closest approach. The blue dots are the many man-made satellites that orbit our planet, and the pink represents the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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