Monthly Archives: January 2025

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New book: Discover the story behind the SKA

See here the book The Square Kilometre Array: A Science Mega-Project in the Making, 1990-2012 - by Richard Schilizzi & colleagues. The book chronicles the early days of this global collaboration.

By | 2025-01-23T09:23:48+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|announcement|Comments Off on New book: Discover the story behind the SKA

WSRT: Enigmatic Distant Radio Bursts Appear to be Neutron Stars

Using the radio telescope at Westerbork astronomers have discovered two dozen of the unexplained Fast Radio Bursts. After zooming in on the signal of the distant bursts, the astronomers found a striking similarity to the radio flashes emitted by nearby, known neutron stars. The discovery is remarkable because these nearby neutron stars already produce more [...]

By | 2025-01-23T09:10:34+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|press release|Comments Off on WSRT: Enigmatic Distant Radio Bursts Appear to be Neutron Stars

A&A: new policy on paper length

Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) has decided to implement publication costs for papers exceeding a size limit, effective for papers submitted to A&A from 2 April 2025. Any authors wishing to exceed the page cap for their regular paper or Letter will need to pay a page charge that supports the additional costs associated with the [...]

By | 2025-01-20T10:12:36+00:00 January 20th, 2025|announcement|Comments Off on A&A: new policy on paper length

ALMA Uncover Surprising New Methods Planets May Form

A new study led by researchers at Lowell Observatory, combining data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Keck Observatory, has unveiled intriguing findings about planet formation in this binary star system, known as DF Tau, along with other systems in this region. See the results in the scientific paper Sites of Planet Formation [...]

By | 2025-01-20T08:45:24+00:00 January 20th, 2025|press release|Comments Off on ALMA Uncover Surprising New Methods Planets May Form

Young Stars in the Milky Way’s Backyard Challenge Our Understanding of How They Form

Astronomers have made groundbreaking discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), along with observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The study with the title JWST Mid-infrared Spectroscopy Resolves Gas, Dust, and Ice in Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud is [...]

By | 2025-01-17T10:16:48+00:00 January 17th, 2025|press release|Comments Off on Young Stars in the Milky Way’s Backyard Challenge Our Understanding of How They Form