Best Practices in K-12 STEM Research April 10-12 will bring together leaders in engaging K-12 students in research experiences to survey the landscape and synthesize best practices for the STEM education community. It is our hope that opportunities for students to engage in STEM communities of practice will increase as a result. The workshop April […]
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 […]
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.
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a new millisecond pulsar (MSP) using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The newfound pulsar, designated PSR J1555−2908, turns out to be one of the so-called “black widow” MSPs. The finding is detailed in a paper published February 10 on arXiv.org.
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Is the Broad 18cm OH Emission ‘Disk’ in Concordance with Galactic Structure? We recently published the GBT discovery paper of a large amount of diffuse molecular gas, previously undetected by CO surveys (Busch et al. 2021). Present in sightlines towards the Outer Galaxy was an extremely faint (~2-4 mK/channel) signal of 1667 MHz OH emission […]
A high spectral and spacial sensitivity line survey will be carried out toward the prestellar core L1544 in the chemically rich Q-band (38-48.2 GHz), which has never before been attempted. Within the band are numerous energetically favorable complex organic molecule (COM) transitions compared to those in other surveys at higher frequency (i.e., the 3mm band), […]