A brief movie highlighting the Science and Technology behind NRAO's instruments: the Very Large Array (VLA) and its expansion (EVLA); the Green Bank Telescope (GBT); the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA); and the Atacama Large Millimeter-wave Array (ALMA). For more details see www.nrao.edu.
The HD Avatar showed his geekier side when he visited the VLA out in the New Mexico desert. This place is cool and a must see if you're into astronomy at all. The movie Contact was filmed here. If you haven't, you should see the movie and read the book Contact by Carl Sagan. It has billions and billions of words to enjoy.
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Trip to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Very Large Array (VLA) in the plains of San Agustin in New Mexico, October 2007. We were on our way to the 2007 Wirefly X Prize Cup (space.xprize.org and took an extra day to visit this awe-inspiring site. Recorded by and Starring: Sofia and Richard Video Editing: Kelli Music: "We Are All Made Of Stars", from the album Echoes, by Ed Alleyne-Johnson Dedicated to explorers everywhere. See the website for this trip: www.kelly.ws And the following youtube video: www.youtube.com
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Dr. Mark Adams of the NRAO gives a talk to CAS, the Charlottesville Astronomical Society in February 2008 on the 3 areas where the NRAO is expanding its research efforts. In Part 1 Dr. Adams describes the GBT, the Green Bank Telescope, the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world, and talks about the VLA, the radio telescope array in New Mexico that was made famous by the movies "Contact" and "2010". He then talks about the VLBA, the 10 dish array that runs from Hawaii to St. Croix in the Caribbean.
JMU astronomy students perform research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W.Va.
Ultimate saucer separation: time lapse of VLA telescope being split in half to replace its aging azimuth gear. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is a major 21st Century radio astronomy project that will open new windows for astronomers to study the origin and evolution of our Universe. This video by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) highlights the science that ALMA will accomplish and follows the first ALMA antenna or radio telescope as it travels from the VertexRSI production facility in Kilgore, Texas, USA thru the port of Houston to the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and the ALMA site, which is in the beautiful but harsh, high-elevation Atacama Desert. The ALMA Project is a partnership between the scientific communities of East Asia, Europe, and North America with Chile. The video was shot by FilmoSonido (Santiago, Chile), Sirius Video (Houston, TX, USA), and Forbes & Butler (Kilgore, TX, USA). Post-production was by the Paladin Media Group (Charlottesville, VA) and the NRAO.
When you think of a star party, you typically think of campers, home-made scopes, tents, lens swapping, porta-potties, exotic equipment, lectures, vendors, and the whole gamut of gadgets attached to amateur scopes for imaging, guiding, and learning the night skies. That was then, this is NOW! Get ready to attend the fifth annual Green Bank Star Quest. Your first question might be: Isn't Green Bank for radio telescopes? The answer is yes, but now with much more! The Central Appalachian Astronomy Club and the Kanawha Valley Astronomical Society of West Virginia have teamed up with the Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) to bring you the only combined OPTICAL and RADIO star party. Being held July 2nd through July 5th, 2008 at Green Bank, West Virginia, there will be lectures, imaging clinics, NRAO tours, daytime and nighttime observing, camp sites, raffle tickets, a Star Lab observatory, movies, kids' activities, cafeteria service, shower facilities, limited bunk house accommodations, astronomy vendors, instruction on and use of a 40' radio dish for a limited number of pre-registrants, and yes, we'll still have porta-potties down in the field.
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A new window into the Universe has opened with the start of Early Science at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Watch the world's most complex ground-based telescope in action and get a first look at its unique views of the Universe.
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A demonstration for Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) prototype unit. ALMA is a joint project between North America, Europe and Japan to build the world's largest, most powerful telescope. This is the american prototype unit built at the NRAO's Very Large Array facility near Socorro, New Mexico.
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With the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the University of Virginia used the Shapiro Delay, a detectable phenomenon derived from General Relativity, to accurately measure a two solar mass neutron star. The consequences weigh heavily on nuclear physics.
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In Part 3 Dr. Adams describes EVLA in detail. - The Correlator - The science themes: - The Magnetic Universe - The Obscured Universe - The Transient Universe - The Evolving Universe - WIDAR, the Wideband Interferometric Digital Architecture, and - The correlator System input bandwidth.
Zoom into the first ALMA images released to the public to see how ALMA sees details of star-forming regions in the places that are dark to other telescopes. These are the Antennae Galaxies, a pair of colliding spirals.
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Discover beautiful Socorro County, New Mexico. Learn more about the Very Large Array, Festival of the Cranes, SocorroFest, New Mexico Tech, NRAO, the City of Socorro, and the Socorro County Chamber of Commerce at www.socorro-nm.com, http and www.socorronm.gov.
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How gaming chips were used by astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and University of Virginia to accurately measure the timings of radio pulses from pulsar J1614-2230 and calculate that it is a record-breaking, two solar mass neutron star.
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Dr. SRRao, an eminent archaeologist, undertakes scientific excavations from 1980-1995 on the west coast of India. He discovers the legendary city of Dvaraka built by Lord Krishna thereby demonstrating that Krishna was not a mythological figure, but a historical being who lived during the epic period. Copyright: MA Raveendra, Visionworld, Bangalore, India. For more information please contact Dr. Nalini Rao, Prof. of World Art, Soka University of America, 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, Ca 92656. nrao@soka.edu
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A time-lapse video of two ALMA telescopes being moved around the ALMA Operations Support Facility on the giant ALMA Transporters, Lore and Otto. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Guarda
