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. http://www.nrao.edu/ The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. en-us mtadams@nrao.edu (Dr. Mark T. Adams) tjohnson@nrao.edu (Taylor Johnson) Science Hand-written by Taylor Johnson National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) http://www.nrao.edu/archives/nraologo_bluethumb.jpg http://www.nrao.edu/ 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. 110 110 Distinguished Astronomer Awarded Jansky Lectureship http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2008/jansky08/ Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2008 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Dr. Arthur M. Wolfe of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). NRAO-2008-05-07-TJ-item0000027-v00000 Wed, 07 May 2008 2:00:00 GMT Radio Telescope Reveals Secrets of Massive Black Hole http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2008/bllac/ At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics. NRAO-2008-04-23-TJ-item0000026-v00000 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 1:00:00 GMT Stellar Birth in Galactic Wilderness http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex-20080416.html A striking composite image from the NRAO Very Large Array and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer reveals surprising numbers of young stars being born in the outermost regions of the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, Messier 83. NRAO-2008-04-17-TJ-item0000025-v00000 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Computer Simulation http://www.nrao.edu/index.php/Watch%20the%20Universe An animation of the current design for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a next generation centimeter-wavelength radio telescope that is expected to be built by 2020. Animation courtesy Xilo Studios and the SKA Outreach Committee. NRAO-2008-04-07-TJ-item0000024-v00000 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:30:00 GMT Movies of the Moon with the GBT http://www.nrao.edu/index.php/Watch%20the%20Universe 70 cm Wavelength Radar Map of the Moon. NRAO-2008-04-07-TJ-item0000023-v00000 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:30:00 GMT Fourth Annual Radio Astronomy Image Contest http://www.nrao.edu/news/newsletters/115/imageContest2008.shtml The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites submissions of astronomical images to its fourth annual Radio Astronomy Imaging Contest. NRAO-2008-04-07-TJ-item0000022-v00000 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:50:00 GMT The NRAO on The History Channel http://www.nrao.edu/ Tune in on Tuesday, April 1 at 9:00 PM Eastern to see the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) on the "Nebulas" episode of "The Universe." NRAO-2008-03-31-TJ-item0000021-v00000 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:25:00 GMT Very Large Array Retooling for 21st-Century Science http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2008/evlahalf/ An international project to make the world's most productive ground-based telescope 10 times more capable has reached its halfway mark and is on schedule to provide astronomers with an extremely powerful new tool for exploring the Universe. NRAO-2008-02-18-TJ-item0000020-v00000 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:00:00 GMT World-Wide Effort Bringing ALMA Telescope Into Reality http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2008/alma.aaas/ In the thin, dry air of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 16,500 feet, an amazing new telescope system is taking shape, on schedule to provide the world's astronomers with unprecedented views of the origins of stars, galaxies, and planets. NRAO-2008-02-15-TJ-item0000018-v00000 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:45:00 GMT Gas Cloud Headed for Milky Way Collision http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18027001 Listen to National Public Radio (NPR) interview NRAO scientist Jay Lockman. NRAO-2008-01-25-TJ-item0000017-v00000 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:50:00 GMT Smith Cloud Collision http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/07-08/jan26.html#2 The CBC Radio One program "Quirks and Quarks" airs an interview with NRAO scientist Jay Lockman on Saturday, 26 January. NRAO-2008-01-25-TJ-item0000016-v00001 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:27:00 GMT Massive Gas Cloud Speeding Toward Collision With Milky Way http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2008/smithscloud/ A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits -- in less than 40 million years -- it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks. NRAO-2008-01-11-TJ-item0000014-v00001 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT