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Observatory Director and Robotics Team Coach Helps Students Apply for Patent

Posted on 2020-09-16 at 1:53 pm.

The Green Bank Elementary-Middle School Radioactive Robotics team created a handicap accessible door-opening mechanism to be used for opening long-handled doors like those at the Green Bank Observatory. Read the full story in the Pocahontas Times.

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Protected: RLBMS 20-Meter Project: October 21-28

Posted on 2020-09-02 at 8:16 pm.

Written by Green Bank Observatory

Green Bank Telescope Data a part of Breakthrough Listen’s Most Comprehensive Search to Date

Posted on 2020-09-02 at 1:00 pm.

Written by Jill Malusky

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the worlds largest steerable telescope, standing 485-feet tall, weighing over 17 million pounds, with a 2.3 acre surface.

Reanalysis of Breakthrough Listen Data to Include Other Stellar Objects in the Field Yields Most Comprehensive SETI Search to Date

Independent team combines existing radio telescope data with new catalogs to search over 200 times more stars than before

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Green Bank Observatory educator to become international astronomy ambassador

Posted on 2020-08-31 at 8:00 am.

Written by Jill Malusky

Luci Fincuan, center, shown giving a tour of the Green Bank Telescope preCOVID-19.

Green Bank Observatory Science Center educator, Luci Finucan, is one of a few international ambassadors accepted into an elite STEM education program. The Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP) brings educators of all types, from formal and informal teachers to amateur astronomers together to learn more about US astronomy facilities in Chile, and share that knowledge with others. Normally a field experience in Chile, under COVID-19 safety precautions for 2020, most training will be virtual.

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