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Applications being accepted for the 2016 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program

Applications being accepted for the 2016 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program

If you have a love of astronomy, a thirst for travel, and a desire to share this passion with others apply now to become part of the 2016 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP) cohort. This program, in its second year, will bring amateur astronomers, planetarium personnel, and astronomy educators of all levels to several of the...

Student Observing Support (SOS) Program

Student Observing Support (SOS) Program

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

ALMA Spots Monstrous Baby Galaxies Cradled in Dark Matter

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...

Listen to the Music of a Dying Star

Listen to the Music of a Dying Star

The ALMA Music Box, currently on display in Japan, now available on iTunes Music from the ALMA Music Box — an audio artwork that plays melodies created from ALMA observations — is now available to be purchased in the iTunes store, on the compilation set “Music for a Dying Star”. R Sculptoris, a massive red giant star located roughly 1000...