Next Generation Very Large Array Workshop 2016 Monday, 4 January 2016, 09:00 - 17:00 EST AAS Meeting Venue: Gaylord Palms Convention Center, Sun B Kissimmee, Florida, USA Radio astronomy is playing a leading role in opening new discovery space, imaging the earliest phases of planet and star formation, studying the cool dust and gas that drive...
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Student Observing Support (SOS) Program
Dec 9, 2015
NRAO maintains a program to support research by students, both graduate and undergraduate, at U.S. universities and colleges. This program is intended to strengthen the proactive role of the Observatory in training new generations of telescope users. SOS proposals associated with successful observing proposals submitted for the Green Bank...
ALMA Spots Monstrous Baby Galaxies Cradled in Dark Matter
Dec 9, 2015
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away. These young galaxies seem to reside at the junction of gigantic filaments in a web of dark matter. These findings are important for understanding how monstrous galaxies like these form and how...
‘Fast Radio Burst’ Sheds New Light on Origin of These Extreme Events
Dec 4, 2015
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic radio waves, have baffled astronomers since they were first reported nearly a decade ago. Though they appear to come from the distant Universe, none of these enigmatic events has revealed more than the slimmest details about how and where it formed, until now. By poring over 650...