20 November 2020
The iconic Arecibo Observatory to be demolished due to safety concerns
...to the Arecibo Observatory cannot be stabilised without risk to construction workers and staff at the facility, the U.S. National Science Foundation will begin plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope,” say the NSF in a recent press release. The...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
...-changer for exploration of the Solar System. Of special interest to the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) bill, which also funds NOAA, the National Science Foundation and other related agencies, and the accompanying report by House appropriators, are...
22 December 2015
Magnetic fields around protostar gives a new twist on star formation
... area, thus providing clues as to how disks channel raw material onto the growing star. Using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to produce images with unprecedented detail, a team of researchers...
13 July 2018
Neutrino discovery helps resolve a century-old riddle
... whole of the sky, not just snippets here and there. "The era of multimessenger astrophysics is here," says National Science Foundation Director France Córdova. "Each messenger gives us a more complete understanding of the universe, and important new...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... to the black hole, much closer than we've been able to see before," said Patrick Vallely, a co-author and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at OSU. "They also show us that ASASSN-19bt's rise in brightness was very smooth...
29 June 2020
Black hole collision may have exploded with light
...black holes. The merger was identified on 21 May 2019 by two gravitational wave detectors - the US National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European Virgo detector - in an event called GW190521g...
