Smitha 🌸🌋🎻Aug 30, 2024

The Very Large Array - Magdalena, New Mexico (but more popularly associated with Socorro).

Contact (the film) has been dear to me for decades. I learned today that radio astronomy is still in the visual spectrum and not auditory, and the movie DID NOT depict that…but the film’s underlying message still holds powerfully. Also, Jodie Foster narrated a video for the visitor center. :D

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Ansgar Schmidt Oct 20, 2023
A Sneak Peek at the Next Generation Very Large Array’s New Antennae https://www.universetoday.com/163633/a-sneak-peek-at-the-next-generation-very-large-arrays-new-antennae/ #nationalradioastronomyobservatory #nextgenerationverylargearray #karlg.janskyverylargearray #radioastronomy #verylargearray #ngvla #nrao #vla
A Sneak Peek at the Next Generation Very Large Array’s New Antennae

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) recently disclosed a prototype radio telescope antennae for its next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) to a group of press, scientists, engineers, and government and business leaders from the United States and Germany at the end of a workshop held at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the … Continue reading "A Sneak Peek at the Next Generation Very Large Array’s New Antennae"

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Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3Mar 4, 2023
I was going through my old stuff and I found my ID from my job at #libertysciencecenter I was an “informal science educator” #STEM it was the “funest” job ever! Now I’m having fun at the #NationalRadioAstronomyObservatory teaching #bipoc & #lgbtq students the joy of #hamradio. https://public.nrao.edu/news/jesse-alexander-ham-radio-project/
Spotlight: Jesse Alexander and the Ham Radio Project - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Jesse Alexander leads the Ham Radio Project, making the electromagnetic spectrum and radio astronomy accessible to BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ students

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