We cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education, and engage the public. WV 1994-2009 Honorary Moose Legionnaire 2002-2009 Green Bank Telescope. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare to secure the national defense."ĪUI collaborates with the scientific community and research sponsors to plan, build, and operate cutting-edge facilities. DC 2003-2004 Governor Moose Lodge Marlinton WV 2006-2009 Member Elks Lodge 1754. NRAO also provides both formal and informal programs in education and public outreach for teachers, students, the general public, and the media. But right in the center of the woods is the Green Bank Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. Observing time on NRAO telescopes is available on a competitive basis to qualified scientists after evaluation of research proposals on the basis of scientific merit, the capability of the instruments to do the work, and the availability of the telescope during the requested time. The Trace Gas Orbiter, which is an ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars, transmitted a signal and it was received by the Green Bank Telescope (West Virginia), the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station (Italy), the Allen Telescope Array (California) and the Very Large Array (New Mexico). The observatory is in the 13,000-square-mile National Radio Quiet Zone, which was established by the Federal Communications Commission in 1958 to protect sensitive instruments from radio interference at Green Bank and at Sugar Grove, West Virginia, a monitoring site operated by the National Security Administration. View Driving through the Monongahela National Forest, you might not expect to find a massive telescope that lets scientists listen to outer space. NRAO telescopes are open to all astronomers regardless of institutional or national affiliation. Sky & Telescope is part of AAS Sky Publishing, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Astronomical Society. In Charles Town, West Virginia, a bright white dome sits gracefully atop the Information Technology building on the American Public University System (APUS) campus. 2 The Green Bank site was part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) until September 30, 2016.
Operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.įounded in 1956, the NRAO provides state-of-the-art radio telescope facilities for use by the international scientific community. Byrd Green Bank Telescope ( GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, 1 surpassing the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Germany. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation
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