Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its ...
What began as a telecommunications engineering task quickly turned into one of the most influential discoveries in modern astronomy. Jansky’s work introduced a completely new way to observe the ...
__1905: __Karl Guthe Jansky is born in Oklahoma. He'll discover that some of the "static" afflicting radio signals comes from distant stars. The new field of radio astronomy will widen and deepen our ...
Simple engineering tasks often lead to massive discoveries. This was the case for the engineer Karl Jansky. He was employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey in 1933 to ascertain the source ...
Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2020 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Dr. Martha P. Haynes, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy ...
A central mission of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is to nurture and inspire the next generation of radio astronomers. One way NRAO does this is through the Jansky Fellowship Program ...