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  • SETI, Breakthrough Listen, and Cornell University Search for Extraterrestrial Pulses in GBT Data

    SETI, Breakthrough Listen, and Cornell University Search for Extraterrestrial Pulses in GBT Data

    Akshay Suresh, a graduate student at Cornell University, spearheads an extraordinary scientific endeavor — a groundbreaking mission to uncover periodic signals emanating from the core of the Milky Way called the Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS). Such repetitive patterns could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of extraterrestrial intelligence in our […]

    2023-05-30

  • GBO Creative Writing and Visual Arts Contest

    GBO Creative Writing and Visual Arts Contest

    See the Call for Submissions for contest guidelines. And the Winners Are . . . ! Astronomer’s Choice Awards These represent the winning submission for each category. Category: K-12 Visual Arts I decided to paint two planets talking through the tin can phone. It makes me wonder if civilizations from both planets speak the same […]

    2023-05-24

  • A Sign in Space: Simulating First Contact

    A Sign in Space: Simulating First Contact

    What would happen if we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization? Artist-in-Residence Daniela de Paulis asks us to imagine this with her latest project,  A Sign in Space.  Green Bank Observatory is thrilled to be part of an international team of collaborators as we stage a live performance of this simulated First Contact.  Join […]

    2023-05-23

  • GBO Science Newsletter – #AAS242 Edition

    GBO @ #AAS242 Find out everything there is to know about GBO at AAS 242! See a list of our latest publications, a digital swag bag, and more. Don’t forget to visit our booth in the exhibit hall!

    2023-05-23

  • Children of GBO Staff Among Recipients of 2023 AUI Scholarship 

    2023-05-23

  • 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.

    2023-05-23

  • 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 […]

    2023-05-17

  • Peculiar Fast Radio Burst Provides Clues to Mysterious Origin

    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. […]

    2023-05-11

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