The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) expects to have an opening for a scientific director position. The Institute invites nominations, including self-nominations, for consideration. To receive full consideration, the nominations should be submitted before 30 April 2025. Read more.
The RadioNet newsletter issue 03/2025 is published. Read here.
The 2025 Tycho Brahe Medal is awarded to Dr Karl-Friedrich Schuster, IRAM/France for his many contributions leading to advances in technology for millimeter astronomy and his leadership role in enabling the ambitious NOEMA upgrade. Read more.
ALMA Cycle 12 Call for Proposals (CfP) for scientific observations to be scheduled from October 2025 to September 2026 is open. For this CfP, the JAO anticipates having 4300 hours of approved science time on each of the 12-m, 7-m, and the Total Power arrays. Together, the 7-m Array and Total Power Array form the [...]
The first image from the international SKA Observatory’s telescope in Australia, SKA-Low, has been released on 17 March 2025 – a significant milestone in its quest to reveal an unparalleled view of our Universe. The image shows an area of sky of about 25 square degrees – equivalent to approximately 100 full Moons. In it [...]
Swirling through the Milky Way’s central zone, surrounding the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, dust and gases constantly churn as energetic shock waves ripple. An international scientific team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has sharpened our view of this action by a factor of 100, discovering a surprising new filamentary structure in this [...]
An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes launch relativistic jets. The sixteen sources were observed with the Event Horizon Telescope during its first campaign in 2017. The extreme resolution achieved by the Event Horizon Telescope enabled studies of jets closer than ever to the central [...]
Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in [...]
The call for proposal for observing with the INAF telescopes is open. The offered instrumentation is listed here. Submission deadline: 14 April 2025, 12:00 UTC.
A scientific team led by Kiana Burton of the University of Colorado and Meredith MacGregor of Johns Hopkins University utilized archival data and new ALMA observations to study the millimeter-wavelength flare activity of Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri's small size and strong magnetic field indicate that its entire internal structure is convective, making the star much [...]