Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, or FIRST, was an astronomical survey of the Northern Hemisphere carried out by the Very Large Array. It was led by , , and David J. Helfand, who came up with the idea for the survey after they had completed the in 1990, as well as and . The survey was started 50 years after the first systematic survey of the radio sky was completed by Grote Reber in April 1943.