National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (NRAO) was formed in 1956 and headquartered in Charlottesville, North Carolina. NRAO is funded by the National Science Foundation and operates in Green Bank, West Virginia, Socorro, New Mexico, Tucson, Arizona and Santiago, Chile. Each site is managed by a high level research activity university in the locale. NRAO funds the installation and maintenance of telescopes, labs and research to improve the science of astronomy. Charlottesville is home to the North American ALMA Science Center and NRAO Technology Center.
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520 Edgemont Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475
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dfinley [at] nrao [dot] edu
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434-296-0211
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"National Radio Astronomy Observatory" in the news:
Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky with Extreme Precision
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the ...
Close-up movie shows hidden details in the birth of super-suns (w/ Video)
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the Nebula is powered by a group of young ...
Blast from the Past Gives Clues About Early Universe
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the ...
ALMA telescope reaches new heights
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) astronomical observatory took another step forward and upward, as one of its state-of-the-art antennas was carried for the first time to Chile's 16,500-foot-high ...
High-School Student Discovers Strange Astronomical Object
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object -- a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient.
Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Gravitational Physics
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Sun's gravity, and their technique promises a ...
Scientists make first discovery using revolutionary long wavelength demonstrator array
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Scientists from NRL's Space Science and Remote Sensing Divisions, in collaboration with researchers from the University of New Mexico and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory located in Socorro, N.M., ...
VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive ...
Radio telescopes extend astronomy's best 'yardstick'
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Radio astronomers have directly measured the distance to a faraway galaxy, providing a valuable "yardstick" for calibrating large astronomical distances and demonstrating a vital method that could help determine the elusive ...
Rare radio supernova in nearby galaxy is nearest supernova in five years
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The chance discovery last month of a rare radio supernova - an exploding star seen only at radio wavelengths and undetected by optical or X-ray telescopes - underscores the promise of new, ...
The cosmos is green: Researchers catch nature in the act of 'recycling' a star (w/Animations)
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers have observed a singular cosmic act of rebirth: the transformation of an ordinary, slow-rotating pulsar into a superfast millisecond pulsar with an almost infinitely ...
Continent-sized radio telescope takes close-ups of Fermi active galaxies
Apr 22, 2009 |
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An international team of astronomers has used the world's biggest radio telescope to look deep into the brightest galaxies that NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can see. The study solidifies the link ...
Astronomers unveiling life's cosmic origins
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Processes that laid the foundation for life on Earth -- star and planet formation and the production of complex organic molecules in interstellar space -- are yielding their secrets to astronomers ...
Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.
Black Holes Lead Galaxy Growth
Jan 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg problem -- the question of which formed first in the early Universe -- galaxies or the supermassive black holes seen at their cores.
