3 Radio Astronomy Futures: ALMA, EVLA, SKA - Part 1

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.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NRAO
• radio
• astronomy
• ALMA
• EVLA
• SKA
• CAS
• space
• science

[Zurround100]

its great that they will see so much of the universe but one microscopic amoeba would excite me more than a billion galaxies if it was not from Earth.

[mlcolbert]

Excellent introduction to the current state of radio astronomy at the NRAO. We should see more of this on the Tube!

michael