National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) designs, builds, and runs the world's most sophisticated radio telescopes for scientists to study the Sun, planets, solar system, distant stars, galaxies, black holes, and other mysterious objects millions to billions of light-years away.
Added on 1 Jan 2009, 00:00 UTC, last updated on 11 Jul 2019, 18:16 UTC
Latest News
- 12 Jul 2019, 09:12 UTC ‘Moon-forming’ Circumplanetary Disk Discovered in Distant Star System
- 9 Jul 2019, 12:58 UTC New Method May Resolve Difficulty in Measuring Universe’s Expansion
- 20 Jun 2019, 16:00 UTC Planetary Rings of Uranus ‘Glow’ in Cold Light
- 12 Jun 2019, 14:59 UTC 2019 Jansky Lectureship Awarded to Caltech Professor
- 11 Jun 2019, 18:47 UTC Dosvedanya and Farewell, RadioAstron
- 5 Jun 2019, 17:00 UTC Cool, Nebulous Ring around Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
- 31 May 2019, 13:37 UTC Statement on Starlink and ‘Constellations’ of Communication Satellites
- 15 May 2019, 18:02 UTC AUI/NRAO Representative in Chile to Join Advisory Council of ComunidadMujer
- 25 Apr 2019, 17:18 UTC Black Hole’s Tug on Space Pulls Fast-Moving Jets in Rapid Wobble
- 17 Apr 2019, 19:55 UTC Chilean Senate Distinguishes ALMA For 1st Image of Black Hole
- 16 Apr 2019, 13:55 UTC The Giant In Our Backyard
- 10 Apr 2019, 13:07 UTC Radio Astronomy and Black Holes
- 2 Apr 2019, 17:19 UTC VLA Makes First Direct Image of Key Feature of Powerful Radio Galaxies
- 19 Mar 2019, 16:00 UTC Astronomers Find “Cannonball Pulsar” Speeding Through Space
- 18 Mar 2019, 19:04 UTC Image Release: ALMA Shows Birth of Spiraling Giants
- 31 Jan 2019, 16:56 UTC Liberal Sprinkling of Salt Discovered around a Young Star
- 9 Jan 2019, 19:00 UTC What 100,000 Star Factories in 74 Galaxies Tell Us about Star Formation across the Universe
- 9 Jan 2019, 00:10 UTC Astronomers Study Mysterious New Type of Cosmic Blast
- 7 Jan 2019, 15:27 UTC Tale as Old as Time
- 20 Dec 2018, 14:00 UTC Image Release: ALMA Gives Passing Comet Its Close-up
- 13 Dec 2018, 15:57 UTC Fragmenting Disk Gives Birth to Binary Star ‘Odd Couple’
- 11 Dec 2018, 14:00 UTC The Epoch of Planet Formation, Times Twenty
- 20 Nov 2018, 18:20 UTC 2019 LAD Early Career Award Goes to Brett McGuire
- 15 Nov 2018, 19:00 UTC Trans-galactic Streamers Feeding Most Luminous Galaxy in the Universe
- 6 Nov 2018, 15:00 UTC Galaxy-Scale Fountain Seen in Full Glory
- 24 Oct 2018, 14:00 UTC VLBA Returning to NRAO, Getting Technical Upgrade
- 23 Oct 2018, 14:00 UTC Image Release: ALMA Maps Europa’s Temperature
- 8 Oct 2018, 04:00 UTC When Is a Nova Not a ‘Nova’? When a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf Collide
- 4 Oct 2018, 14:00 UTC VLA Sky Survey Reveals First “Orphan” Gamma Ray Burst
- 24 Sep 2018, 20:31 UTC VLA Discovers Powerful Jet Coming from “Wrong” Kind of Star
- 13 Sep 2018, 13:59 UTC VLBA Measures Asteroid’s Characteristics
- 6 Sep 2018, 17:10 UTC Fierce Winds Quench Wildfire-like Starbirth in Far-flung Galaxy
- 4 Sep 2018, 14:50 UTC Radio Observations Confirm Superfast Jet of Material From Neutron Star Merger
- 17 Aug 2018, 15:00 UTC First Science with ALMA’s Highest-Frequency Capabilities
- 7 Aug 2018, 17:26 UTC Observatory Receives Funds to Repair St. Croix Radio Telescope
- 2 Aug 2018, 22:33 UTC VLA Detects Possible Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Magnetic Powerhouse
- 30 Jul 2018, 15:00 UTC Pair of Colliding Stars Spill Radioactive Molecules into Space
- 26 Jul 2018, 15:00 UTC Enduring ‘Radio Rebound’ Powered by Jets from Gamma-Ray Burst
- 6 Jul 2018, 20:49 UTC Distant Quasar Providing Clues to Early-Universe Conditions
- 5 Jul 2018, 22:25 UTC VLA Gives Tantalizing Clues About Source of Energetic Cosmic Neutrino
- 26 Jun 2018, 21:00 UTC Even Phenomenally Dense Neutron Stars Fall like a Feather
- 11 Jun 2018, 17:37 UTC Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star
- 7 Jun 2018, 18:59 UTC Trio of Infant Planets Discovered around Newborn Star
- 9 May 2018, 16:39 UTC ALMA Finds Most-Distant Oxygen in the Universe
- 7 May 2018, 13:53 UTC Stanford Astronomer Honored as Jansky Lecturer by AUI, NRAO
- 3 May 2018, 12:00 UTC ALMA Reaches 1000 Published Papers
- 1 May 2018, 19:05 UTC Former ALMA Prototype Antenna Finds New Life as Greenland Telescope
- 30 Apr 2018, 14:00 UTC New Technology Offers to Broaden Vision for Radio Astronomy
- 19 Apr 2018, 20:54 UTC Astronomers Witness Galaxy Megamerger
- 9 Apr 2018, 15:00 UTC Breakthrough in Detection Technology at Axion Dark Matter Experiment
