Discoveries
In 2002, astronomers detected three new millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster Messier 62.
In 2006, several discoveries were announced, including a large coil-shaped magnetic field in the Orion molecular cloud, and a large hydrogen gas superbubble 23,000 light years away, named the Ophiuchus Superbubble.
Since 2006 numerous discoveries have been made, including the most massive ever neutron star, cloud of primordial gas which surround other galaxies, vast molecular clouds surrounding other galaxies, and complex molecules, such as sugar, in space. A listing of recent discoveries can be found at "Green Bank in the News" and 2012 GBT Publications.
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