A team of astronomers has discovered that filaments of star-forming gas near the Orion Nebula…
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The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is a cornerstone of global radio astronomy research, providing state-of-the-art facilities for scientists to explore the universe through radio waves. Established in 1956 and funded by the National Science Foundation, the NRAO operates major observatories including the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, in partnership with international collaborators. These instruments enable the study of phenomena such as black holes, cosmic jets, interstellar gas clouds, and the formation of galaxies, stars, and planetary systems. NRAO also plays a key role in developing cutting-edge instrumentation and data analysis tools, supporting both fundamental research and public outreach.
Using the Green Bank Telescope, Very Long Baseline Array, and other observatories, astronomers have identified…
New data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope reveals that the high-velocity cloud…
Using ALMA, a team of astronomers studied the relationship between highly luminous O-type stars and…
The Green Bank Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen river of hydrogen streaming into the nearby…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers discovered more than 100 dwarf galaxies…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered a triple star system with two white…
New research from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array makes disk fragmentation the strongest…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers surveyed the cores of some of the…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers reveal never-before-seen details and present the most sensitive maps…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have discovered a…
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Robert C. Byrd…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers view the coldest known object in the…
A team of scientists has discovered that a neutron star, dubbed IGR J18245-2452, has the…
Using data from an intercontinental combination of radio telescopes, astronomers have been able to see…
Scientists view a rare multiple quasar imaging event caused by the effects of a cloud…
Using VLBA and the European VLBI Network, astronomers were able to accurately measure the distance…
Using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, astronomers detected a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen…