Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the largest fully-steerable radio telescope in the world. At 485 feet tall with a 2.3-acre dish, the NSF Green Bank Telescope weighs 17 million pounds, or about 8,500 tons.

While taking part in a recent survey for dynamic mass and hydrogen content in 350 feint galaxies, the Green Bank Telescope made a unique discovery — by accident. The discovery of what appears to ...

A HIGH VALLEY in the mountains of West Virginia is home to one of the world’s largest radio telescopes: a white-paneled behemoth called the Green Bank Telescope whose dish is bigger than a ...

Karen Perez "The paper led to Breakthrough Listen's first collaboration between the Green Bank Telescope (site of the first-ever SETI observation by Frank Drake in 1961) and the SETI Institute's Allen ...

Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly vigil, scanning the cosmos for secrets. If intelligent life exists ...

The Green Bank Telescope, which uses a low-power radar transmitter to capture data, along with the Very Long Baseline Array, is responsible for the new images, which show the Moon’s Tycho crater ...

It’s now home to the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Radio Telescope, the largest steerable telescope in the world at 7,600 metric tons and a height of 485 feet. Its 2.3-acre dish can study quasars ...

(WDBJ) - Five members of the Green Bank Observatory team have spent the week dodging polar bears, climbing glaciers and dismantling a giant telescope in the Arctic Circle. The team includes ...

a new telescope is slated to be built at the Green Bank Observatory to pinpoint the locations of FRBs in far off galaxies, enabling the ability to finally discover the nature of these enigmatic ...