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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

Dr. Otto Struve, director of the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., announced a project that aims to bring earthlings out of their isolation.

From Time Magazine Archive

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