The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is launching a new series of open community webinars to strengthen communication with its future Science Users’ community. Starting 18 November 2025, the webinars will provide updates on construction progress, rollout plans, tools, and commissioning, followed by live Q&A sessions. Each webinar will be held three times per year, [...]
Applications are now open for the third edition of the CTAO School, which will take place in La Palma, Spain, from 12–22 May 2026. The ten-day programme offers students and postdoctoral researchers a unique opportunity to deepen their expertise in very high-energy (VHE) astrophysics, engage with leading experts, and gain hands-on experience in data analysis [...]
ESA invites scientists to apply for the Archival Research Visitor Programme, offering the opportunity to carry out research using data from the ESA Space Science Archives: Open to researchers from ESA Member and Cooperating States - with early-career scientists and students especially encouraged. Visits can take place at ESAC or ESTEC, typically lasting 1–3 months. [...]
An international team led by Peking University and ASTRON has discovered a new type of radio emission from the red dwarf AD Leo, the most common type of star in our Galaxy (Jiale Zhang et al., Science Advances 2025). Using China’s FAST telescope, they observed millisecond-long bursts whose frequencies sweep at an astonishing 8 GHz per [...]
The European VLBI Network (EVN) continues its successful series of online seminars, highlighting the power of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) in modern astronomy. The next seminar will be held on 6 November 2025 at 11:00 CET, presented by Prof. Miguel Pérez-Torres (IAA-CSIC): “New and exciting transient sources unveiled by VLBI.” This talk will explore the [...]
An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, used the NOEMA interferometer to detect the thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect in the distant galaxy cluster CL J1226.9+3332, nearly 7 billion light-years away (read Muñoz-Echeverría M. et al., 2025). By mapping the tSZ signal at unprecedented resolution, NOEMA revealed that the cluster’s hot gas has a surprisingly [...]
ACME announced the upcoming calendar of remote tutorials and hands-on sessions organized over the next three months by multi-messenger experts from the ACME Joint Centres of Expertise. These sessions aim to provide participants with both introductory knowledge and practical exercises in observational techniques, data analysis, and theoretical software packages and tools in the multi-messenger context. [...]
An international team has used the European VLBI Network (EVN) together with e-MERLIN, the Green Bank Telescope, (GBT) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), to detect a mysterious dark object in a distant galaxy. The discovery, made through the object’s gravitational lensing effect rather than direct light, reveals the lowest-mass object ever identified using [...]
The Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF) has been admitted as an I-member of the International Special Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR) - a major step toward addressing unintended electromagnetic radiation (UEMR) from satellites. This development marks growing recognition that satellite-generated radio noise poses a serious threat to radio astronomy, which depends on detecting extremely [...]
A new study led by Univ. Würzburg & MPIfR (Luca Ricci) provides unprecedented insights into the central regions of the nearby galaxy NGC 1052. Using high-resolution 43 GHz VLBI observations, the team identified a compact, point-like source within the galaxy’s active nucleus, indicating that NGC 1052 hosts a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (LLAGN). Remarkably, the [...]