Cleaned out my work office as I'm working from home for a while, these are souvenirs dating from my time as a #vlba correlator operator, '94-98. These days they use disk packs, once they retired the tape drives I kept these two for the feels.

A squabbling ape took a pile of dirt and made it into a machine that talks to us from between the stars.
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RT @Rainmaker1973
NASA Voyager 1 is now at 23,837,974,000 km of distance from Earth and we can't see it.

However, its radio signal can be seen. This is how @TheNRAO #VLBA saw it exactly 10 years ago #Today

[read more: http://go.nasa.gov/1T0f1zz]
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1628003147078672387

#astronomy #Moon #TychoCrater #radar #VLBA

A new image of Tycho's crater on the Moon is the most detailed yet captured from Earth.

https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2023/01/17/tycho-crater-on-the-moon-in-the-most-detailed-image-captured-from-earth-so-far/

De meest gedetailleerde opnames van de Maan vanaf de Aarde

Onze radarsystemen voor planetaire verdediging staan op het punt om veel, veel sterker te worden.

https://www.kuuke.nl/de-meest-gedetailleerde-opnames-van-de-maan-vanaf-de-aarde/

#astronomie #maan #tycho #radar #VLBA #greenbank

RT @SETIInstitute@twitter.com

We are teaming up with @BerkeleySETI@twitter.com to install the #COSMIC processing cluster at @TheNRAO@twitter.com #VeryLargeArray to search millions of stars. As a new milestone, we were awarded time-competitive observations to check sources of interest we find with the #VLA and #VLBA. cc: @Chenoachem@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SETIInstitute/status/1598410429251854348

Cool science. Not aliens.

Yet.

RT @SETIInstitute@twitter.com

We are teaming up with @BerkeleySETI@twitter.com to install the #COSMIC processing cluster at @TheNRAO@twitter.com #VeryLargeArray to search millions of stars. As a new milestone, we were awarded time-competitive observations to check sources of interest we find with the #VLA and #VLBA. cc: @Chenoachem@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SETIInstitute/status/1598377668617043968

The inner structure of the jet of the nearby #quasar 3C 273 – the region where the jet is shaped – is revealed by very long baseline interferometry (#VLBI) observations at 3mm with #ALMA, and the Global Millimetre VLBI Array (#GMVA, consisting of the US Very Long Baseline Array (#VLBA) and European #telescopes).

#Astronomy #Astrodon

ALMA: Astronomers Observed the Innermost Structure of a Quasar Jet – ALMA Observatory

http://www.almaobservatory.org/astronomers-observed-the-innermost-structure-of-a-quasar-jet/

RT @TheNRAO@twitter.com

Cosmic Rulers 📐

Astronomers have found a new way to measure the expansion of the Universe. Observations with the #VLBA, #VLA, and #GBT have made it possible to use mergers of neutron-star pairs as a new tool for measuring the rate of expansion.

https://public.nrao.edu/news/new-method-measuring-universe-expansion/#PRimageSelected

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheNRAO/status/1148262403068649472