National Radio Astronomy Observatory

American  

noun

1. an observatory founded in 1956 by the National Science Foundation, currently with three sites of operation: one near Green Bank, W. Va., having 300-foot (91-meter) and 140-foot (43-meter) paraboloidal dishes; one on Kitt Peak in Arizona having a 36-foot (11-meter) radio telescope; and the Very Large Array in New Mexico.

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Example Sentences

Yuri Kovalev remembers how some of his older colleagues took offense when he moved to the United States in 2003 to take a postdoc position at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

From Science Magazine

At the National Radio Astronomy Observatory run by a university coalition, “We are doing exactly nothing special to prepare for the shutdown,” Director Tony Beasley says.

From Science Magazine

“It is extraordinary—maybe unprecedented—for a radio telescope to stay as productive as it has for so long,” says Frail, who works at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

From Scientific American

Rebecca Charbonneau, a science historian at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory who attended the Penn State technosignatures conference, told me that in the mid-1960s, not long after Drake came up with his equation, Carl Sagan, a close friend and colleague of his, asked, “Do technical civilizations tend to destroy themselves shortly after they become capable of interstellar radio communications?”

From New York Times

She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge studying the history of radio astronomy, and is currently a historian in residence at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, as well as a Jansky Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

From Scientific American