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Green Bank Telescope
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Is ‘Oumuamua More Than a Space Rock? Astronomers Are Going to Give It a Listen
It’s probably just a chunk of space rock, but the Breakthrough Listen program is going to give ‘Oumuamua…
The Green Bank Telescope Will Train Its Massive Dish at ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star
Tabby’s star (officially designated as KIC 846285), or as most of us know it, the star straight out…
Astronomers are One Step Closer to Understanding Baffling Fast Radio Bursts
They are called Fast Radio Bursts (FRB). Astronomers first noticed them about a decade ago. This week, astronomers…
The “Space Peanut” Asteroid and the Two Telescopes Behind The Images
On July 25, our planet had a close (relatively) encounter with a weird looking asteroid. The asteroid, 1999…
These High School Students Earned Their Astronomer Chops By Discovering a Pulsar
We’ve all looked to the skies and wondered – what is up there? One team of high school students…
One Amazing View. Astronomers Watching a Multiple Star System as It Forms
The Very Large Array and the Green Bank Telescope helped this team of astronomers watch a multiple star system in its earliest stage of formation