December 2014
Finding NEO
... larger than full Moon) and a 3,200 megapixel camera. LSST is a public–private project, with the US National Science Foundation supporting the telescope and site facility construction, data management system, education and public outreach components...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (2015-18). She was a programme officer for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences (2013-15) and a professor at University of Memphis for over 20 years. Her research involves...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... & Public Outreach at SOFIA (2018-19). She was a programme officer for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences (2013-15) and a professor at the University of Memphis for over 20 years. Schmelz is also Senior Vice President...
15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
... found in an enormous star-forming cloud known as Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) by researchers primarily using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia as part of the Prebiotic Interstellar Molecular Survey, this puzzle...
04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
... Energy Survey (DES). DES is a large international science collaboration of more than 400 scientists from 26 institutions ... only the first year of their survey," said National Science Foundation Program Director Nigel Sharp. "Now that their analysis...
09 November 2020
More woe for Arecibo as a second cable breaks causing more damage
... Universidad Ana G. Méndez and Yang Enterprises Inc. operate the observatory under cooperative agreement with the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Now, a second cable has broken, this time involving one of the main support cables, causing...
