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...
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...
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...
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...