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National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Virtual Astronomical Observatory
CCAT is a groundbreaking submillimeter telescope that will be located at 5600 m altitude on Cerro Chajnantor in the Andes mountains of northern Chile.
National Science Foundation
Square Kilometre Array
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News
- Chilean President Addresses ALMA Inauguration Ceremony CREDIT: NRAO/AUI/NSF
Astronomers Celebrate New Era of Discovery with ALMA Inauguration
March 13, 2013
Revolutionary telescope will enable unprecedented views of the cosmos
ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, was officially inaugurated today in a ceremony that brought together representatives from the international astronomical community… Read More
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- The antennas of ALMA scrutinize the mysteries of the universe 24 hours a day ALMA
National Science Foundation Celebrates Inauguration of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile
March 13, 2013
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), in collaboration with its Canada and Taiwan partners, Japan, Europe and Chile, inaugurated the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) today, one of the world's most powerful telescopes, as part of an international ceremony in Chile… Read More
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- Students at Long Beach Convention Center Miriam Satin, Associated Universities, Inc.
AUI Sponsors Very Successful Educational Program at AAS 221st Meeting
January 8, 2013
On January 8th, 2013, AUI sponsored an Astronomy Student Event at the Long Beach AAS Meeting. AUI’s donation helped transport 270 local middle-school and high-school students to the Long Beach Convention Center… Read More
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Science
- The GBT and some of the discovered molecules Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
Discoveries Suggest Icy Cosmic Start for Amino Acids and DNA Ingredients
February 28, 2013
Using new technology at the telescope and in laboratories, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space… Read More
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- For each source observed near and after the Hunters Trophy event, maps of TEC gradient fluctuation power as a function of east-west and north-south spatial frequency. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Radio Telescope, GPS Use Ionosphere to Detect Nuclear Tests
February 19, 2013
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory radio astronomer, Joseph Helmboldt, Ph.D., and researchers at Ohio State University Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering analyzed radio telescope interferometry and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data recorded of the ionosphere during one of the last underground nuclear explosions (UNEs) in the U… Read More
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- How the Yarkovsky Effect slows an asteroid's orbital motion Alexandra Bolling, NRAO/AUI/NSF
Getting the Right Spin on a Close-Passing Asteroid
February 11, 2013
The record-setting close approach of an asteroid on Feb. 15 is an exciting opportunity for scientists, and a research team will use National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and NASA telescopes to gain a key clue that will help them predict the future path of this nearby cosmic neighbor… Read More
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Alma
- Gas streamers cross gap in protoplanetary disk Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
ALMA Shows How Young Star and Planets Grow Simultaneously
January 2, 2013
Astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to get their first glimpse of a fascinating stage of star formation in which planets forming around a young star are helping the star itself continue to grow, resolving a longstanding mystery… Read More
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- Technician Juan Carlos Gatica checks electronics on the ALMA correlator Carlos Padilla, NRAO/AUI/NSF
Powerful Supercomputer Makes ALMA a Telescope
December 21, 2012
One of the most powerful calculating machines known to the civilian world has been installed and tested in a remote, high-altitude site in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, marking one of the major remaining milestones toward completion of the most elaborate ground-based telescope in history, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)… Read More
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- Artist's conception of dusty disk around a brown dwarf ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. Kornmesser (ESO)
Brown Dwarfs May Grow Rocky Planets
November 30, 2012
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time found that the outer region of a dusty disk encircling a brown dwarf contains millimeter-sized solid grains like those found in denser disks around newborn stars… Read More
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