However, the dish of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is 2.34 acres large and measures 300 feet in diameter—quite a bit larger than the average West Virginia driveway. So, how exactly ...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are an abundant class of organic molecules in space, playing a significant role in the interstellar medium (ISM). These molecules, composed of fused carbon ...

In this paper, we describe the implementation of an optical quadrant detector instrument that can detect and provide a correction signal for wind-induced pointing errors on the 100 m diameter Green ...

She is one of less than 200 residents at the heart of the West Virginia Quiet Zone, set up in the 1950s to facilate the Green Bank Telescope - a radio telescope that's bigger than the statue of ...

Magnetic fields billions of light years away offer clues to the nature of intense flashes from the sky known as fast radio bursts. Many telescopes use the radio spectrum to learn about the cosmos ...