Highest-resolution Radar Images of the Moon Reveal Never-before-seen Photo of Lunar Surface

Medicine & Technology Feb 14, 2023

A collaborative team of scientists and engineers has set out to capture the highest-resolution radar images of the Moon ever collected from the ground. Read the article to learn more.

James Webb Space Telescope Detects Sonic Boom Larger Than Milky Way Resulting From Galactic Invasion

Jan 11, 2023

The sonic boom was generated when a rogue galaxy invaded Stephen's Quintet at a speed of 1.8 million mph, causing a ripple through the interstellar plasma. Read the article for more details.

Whale Galaxy's Large Magnetic Fields Observed

Dec 07, 2019

In an image captured by the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Whale Galaxy appears to have hair-like filaments sticking out.

VLA Discovers The New Supermassive Black Hole in Cygnus Galaxy

May 24, 2017

The NRAO Very Large Array radio telescope has discovered a supermassive black hole in the famous galaxy of Cygnus A radio galaxy.

Can Life Form in Another Solar System? Scientists Find Building Blocks for Life Around Million-Year-Old Star

Apr 09, 2015

While researchers have long believed that the circumstances and the molecular structures involved in the creation of our Sun and of our Earth were unique, it appears that far off in space there may be another solar system brimming with potential for life someday. Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) researchers with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have detected for the first time ever the complex organic molecules necessary to create life in a protoplanetary disk surrounding an infant star only a million years into its formation.

With the Help of ALMA Astronomers Find Complex Organic Molecules in Infant Solar System

Apr 08, 2015

While researchers have long believed that the circumstances and the molecular structures involved in the creation of our Sun and of our Earth were unique, it appears that far off in space there may be another solar system brimming with potential for life someday. Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) researchers with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have detected for the first time ever the complex organic molecules necessary to create life in a protoplanetary disk surrounding an infant star only a million years into its formation.

Astronomers Adopt a Forming Star, Watching it Grow for 18 Years 4200 Light-Years Away

Apr 02, 2015

While researchers may have missed the formation of our very own Sun by a few billion years, in essence they have become surrogate parents to many other stars formed since the dawn of the telescope. Watching one such infant star well into its adulthood, researchers with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory this week released a time lapse of one such star, affectionately named “W75N(B)-VLA 2”, which reveals the earliest formations of a massive young star over the course of 18 years. The beginning and ending images released this week reveal a dramatic difference in the star’s developmental stages and highlights theories that astronomers have posited for decades, as they wondered if they would ever catch a glimpse of stars forming in such a way as researchers today have been able to do.