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National Radio Astronomy Observatory

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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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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 Nov. 9, 2023

“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 Oct. 20, 2022

National Radio Astronomy Observatory, who was not involved in the study.

From Science Magazine Dec. 14, 2021

“We are drowning in data,” says Rafael Hiriart, a computer scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico, soon to be the site of the next-generation Very Large Array radio telescope.

From Slate Oct. 8, 2021

And in that belief, the first try was made at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia last spring.

From Time Magazine Archive

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