NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a [...]
About 1800 scientists from around the globe attended the European Astronomical Society (EAS 2022) Annual Meeting in Valencia. Opticon RadioNet Pilot project (ORP) was subject of several presentations on the special session European Forum of Astronomical Communities on 30 June 2022, a special platform at the EAS meetings launched at the EAS Meeting in 2017 [...]
On 30 September 2022, the inauguration of the NOEMA Observatory by Antoine Petit (CNRS President), Martin Stratmann (MPG President) and Karl Schuster (IRAM Director) will take place; official addresses with an introductory statement by Prof. Reinhard Genzel, Physics Nobel Laureate 2020, in the Superdévoluy ski resort.
Applications are invited for multiple research positions focused on exploiting high angular resolution radio astronomy. The scientific goals of the project are to study the properties of dark matter, understand black hole activity and resolve star-formation processes in galaxies across cosmic time. The positions are part of a new initiative to develop Very Long Baseline [...]