RadioNet newsletter 11/2024 issued
Read here the RadioNet issue 11/2024.
Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy
“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. Located a staggering 160 000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered [...]
Milestone Achieved: APEX Fully Joins the Global mm-VLBI Array!
The APEX telescope in Chile has now fully integrated into the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) with a successful 3mm wavelength operation. Thanks to the new 3mm receiver installed in APEX, we detected interferometric fringes between APEX and other antennas around the globe, verified through MPIfR’s correlator centre. This breakthrough was achieved during observations from 11-13 [...]
Open call: MAGIC observation proposals
The MAGIC collaboration encourages external scientists to propose observations using the MAGIC telescopes, with observation time granted by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) based on scientific merit. There is no predefined allocation of time between internal or external collaborators. The ACME project enables transnational access (TA) on the basis of scientific merit to a wide range [...]
Germany has become an official member of the SKAO
Germany has been admitted as the twelfth member of the international astronomy organisation the SKA Observatory. As the first official act of its SKAO membership, Germany will host the next SKAO Science Conference, which will take place at the DZA site in Görlitz from 16-20 June 2025. Read more here.