Sentences with phrase «years of radio astronomy»

He has published numerous articles in professional journals and edited several books, including Gaseous Halos of Galaxies and But It Was Fun: The First Forty Years of Radio Astronomy at Green Bank.

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This year marks the semicentennial of the discovery of pulsars, first observed by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, shown here in 1968 at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, England.

An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away — almost double the previous record.

«What we're seeing is a star that is the cosmic equivalent of «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» with the ability to change from one form to its more intense counterpart with startling speed,» said Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rradio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.»

In the past year astronomers working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Green Bank Telescope have identified eight new molecules that are some of the largest and most complex compounds discovered in space.

«For 20 years it was always five years away,» says collaborator Ken Kellermann of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In recent years radio and stellar astronomy have begun to map the location of its arms

The Observatory has continued the program and now, after 30 years, over 1300 K - 12 teachers, 500 college faculty, and hundreds of K - 16 students have graduated from what has affectionately been called: «Radio Astronomy Boot Camp».

«These ultra high precision observations showed that the bursts and the persistent source must be within 100 light - years of each other,» said Jason Hessels, of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and the University of Amsterdam.

«Because of the Earth's ionosphere, such a low frequency has proven very difficult for high - quality imaging, and it is only in the past few years that we have developed the techniques that make a project like the VLSS possible,» said Rick Perley, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM.

Over the years, more and more radio astronomers were joining the astronomy department at the University of Toronto, and in the 1960's, the David Dunlap Observatory actively participated in the development of the Algonquin Radio Observatory in Ontradio astronomers were joining the astronomy department at the University of Toronto, and in the 1960's, the David Dunlap Observatory actively participated in the development of the Algonquin Radio Observatory in OntRadio Observatory in Ontario.

Within the first year of GBI observations, the major astronomy report from the National Academy of Sciences recommended the immediate funding and building of a large - scale radio telescope array as a national science facility.

Jeremy Lim of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics in Taiwan; Chris Carilli, Anthony Beasley, and Ralph Marson of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM; and Stephen White of the University of Maryland studied the red - supergiant star Betelgeuse, about 430 light - years away in the constellation Orion.

50 years ago Émile - Jacques Blum, Peter Mezger and Harry van der Laan had a vision of a meeting where young Europeans in radio astronomy could meet each other and exchange their experiences.

The workshop this year highlighted radio astronomy in association with the start of ALMA Early Scientific Observation from the end of September.

In the years from 1938 to 1943, Reber made the first surveys of radio waves from the sky and published his results both in engineering and astronomy journals.

Lead author Dr. Danail Obreschkow, from The University of Western Australia (UWA) node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said that ten billion years ago the Universe was full of clumpy galaxies, but these developed into more regular objects as they evolved; the majority of stars in the sky today, including our five billion - year - old Sun, were probably born inside these clumpy galaxies.

Drs. Alan Roy and James Ulvestad of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, together with Drs. Edward Colbert and Andrew Wilson of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the University of Maryland, used the VLBA to image a light - year - sized radio jet in NGC 4151, a relatively nearby spiral gaRadio Astronomy Observatory, together with Drs. Edward Colbert and Andrew Wilson of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the University of Maryland, used the VLBA to image a light - year - sized radio jet in NGC 4151, a relatively nearby spiral garadio jet in NGC 4151, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy.

«The Sculptor Galaxy is currently forming stars at a rate of five solar masses each year, which is a many times faster than our own Milky Way,» said lead researcher Dr Anna Kapinska, from The University of Western Australia and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth.

As the distance to that galaxy is only 70 Megaparsec or 230 million light years, we are able to examine the jet structure with an unprecedented accuracy of only a few hundred black hole radii or 12 light days», concludes Professor Anton Zensus, director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany and head of its VLBI research department, a co-author of the paper.

This month marks both the 60th anniversary of the dedication of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory here in Green Bank, and the one - year anniversary of the creation of the Green Bank Observatory.

As many of you are aware, after almost 60 years in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, we have branched...

Bryan Gaensler, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Dale Frail, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), in Socorro, NM, studied a pulsar that was thought to be 16,000 years old, but found instead that it is at least 40,000 years old and may be as old as 170,000 years.

Green Bank, West Virginia, was the first home of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and we are celebrating 60 years of research and discovery this year!

Dr. Kathryn Williamson joined the West Virginia University Department of Physics in January 2016 after spending 3 years as the Public Education Specialist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia.

As many of you are aware, after almost 60 years in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, we have branched off to become a separate organization — the Green Bank Observatory.