A group of nine outreach and education professionals from across the United States and Puerto Rico was selected to be the 2016 class for the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP), an immersive astronomy outreach and awareness program sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). These ambassadors, each of whom has a...
On 20 November 2015, the National Science Foundation (NSF) selected Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) to manage the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) through a new 10-year cooperative agreement. The new agreement includes the operation of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), the North American share of the international Atacama...
ALMA finds unexpectedly cold grains in planet-forming disk Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and IRAM telescopes to make the first direct measurement of the temperature of the large dust grains in the outer parts of a planet-forming disk around a young star. By applying a novel technique to observations...
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites scientists to participate in the NRAO Semester 2016B Call for Proposals for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), Very Large Array (VLA), and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), High Sensitivity Array (HSA), and Global 3mm VLBI Array (GMVA). The submission deadline for Semester 2016B proposals is...