RocketSTEM Issue #2 - April 2013 | Page 12

Stargazing to discover secrets of the Milky Way Green Bank offers unique view to Dr. Lockman Interview by Chase Clark Dr. Felix James (Jay) Lockman has spent the past two decades probing the origin of the Milky Way. He conducts his research from a rural area in West Virginia, a special place for radio astronomy that is unmatched anywhere else in the United States, using the Green Bank Telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Q: The Green Bank Telescope is at an observatory in West Virginia that is unlike most other observatories in the world. Why is that? Lo