The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit
within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered
in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected
in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar
in a stellar
triple system; discovery of pebble -
sized proto - planets
in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule
in space.