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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

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 Sep. 29, 2023

“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

“The telescope is in no way obsolete,” says Christopher Salter, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, who worked at Arecibo for years.

From Scientific American Nov. 19, 2020

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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