Collin Miller describes the slate of speakers at the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Western Regional Conference in Arizona this weekend: “There’s doctor this, and doctor someone, PhDs, then you have Berthoud High School STEM students.” Miller and fellow high school senior, Xander Pickard, will present the research of a team of six Berthoud students, […]
AT&T engineered an unusual low-power antenna system inside a radio quiet zone at a snow resort in rural West Virginia, giving thousands of daily smartphone users network access for the first time. Work on the multimillion-dollar solution started in 2013 and took months of testing with engineers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and […]
When leaders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, announced in February the first-ever direct detection of a gravitational wave, astrophysicists Scott Ransom from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Andrea Lommen at Franklin and Marshall University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, had mixed feelings. On the one hand, it meant that the team they and […]
Better known for probing deep space to study the nature of gravitational waves, discover the presence of molecules that could potentially support life, and search for the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, the Green Bank Observatory has added a more down-to-earth research role to its repertoire: potato production. On Thursday, the last of six five-acre plots […]
The first scientific search for intelligent life in the universe began in 1960 at the Green Bank Observatory, in Pocahontas County, with a four-month effort to detect interstellar radio signals from two stars in a relatively nearby constellation. It continues today, as the observatory’s 300-foot Green Bank Telescope serves as a key component of Breakthrough […]
West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) has a rapidly growing research and teaching group within the Department of Physics and Astronomy which explores a wide variety of hot topics in current astrophysics. In 2012 WVU became the first partner of the Green Bank Observatory and has been an important partner ever since. WVU time […]
National Science Foundation Open Skies Proposals Past proposals submitted to the NSF Open Skies proposal process are available here. Current Proposal Requests Proposed Changes for Green Bank Observatory Operations Overview The National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) in its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Directorate, funds world-class facilities that use cutting-edge technology […]
NANOGrav The North American NanoHertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, or NANOGrav, has members drawn from across the United States and Canada. Their goal is to study the Universe using gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space and time that cause objects to shrink and stretch by very, very small amounts. NANOGrav uses the Galaxy itself […]