Open AccessRadio Telescope Gets Star Treatment
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2013eo480003
Subject(s) - jansky , telescope , radio telescope , observatory , astronomy , search for extraterrestrial intelligence , visitor pattern , radio astronomy , physics , computer science , radio galaxy , galaxy , programming language
Actress Jodie Foster, who played a scientist in search of extraterrestrial life in the 1997 film Contact , narrates a new promotional film to reintroduce the public to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) renovated Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico. The 24‐minute film, Beyond the Visible , which will air in the VLA Visitor Center, focuses on the operation of the telescope and scientific achievements associated with it.