Mike Garrett Passes the Torch to Keith Grainge Keith Grainge has been appointed as Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics for a three-year term beginning 1 January 2026. He succeeds Mike Garrett, who has served in this role for close to ten years. Mike has been a central figure [...]
Transnational access to MAGIC is provided to selected user-groups of one or more researchers, with the majority of the users working in EU and/or Associated Countries AND NOT AFFILIATED WITH SPANISH INSTITUTES. The access includes the logistical, technological and scientific support and the specific training. Additionally financial support for travel and accommodation could be offered [...]
The next ERIS - European Radio Astronomy School will be hosted by INAF Institute of Radioastronomy (IRA-INAF, Italy) from 7–11 September 2026 in Noto, Sicily. Mark your calendars - further details will follow.
France has secured its first SKAO construction contract, with computing specialists Eviden (part of Atos Group) tasked with delivering the Science Data Processor (SDP) hardware for the Observatory’s two telescopes. The SDP will handle massive data volumes, reducing and processing up to a million 4K-equivalent streams to produce detailed sky images, ultimately archiving ~700 PB [...]
The European VLBI Network (EVN) is announced a new seminar within the 3rd series of online seminars "Exploring the sharpest view of the Universe with the EVN". Sandor Frey from Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, will present a talk about VLBI and Gaia Astrometry in the Service of AGN Astrophysics. Join on Friday [...]
An international team led by Tom Bakx (Chalmers University) has identified an extreme star-forming galaxy, Y1, over 13 billion light-years away. Using ALMA, they measured dust temperatures of 90 K, revealing that Y1 is forming stars at over 180 solar masses per year, about 180 times faster than the Milky Way. This discovery provides key insights [...]
An international team led by Dr. Dana Alina (Nazarbayev University) has revealed the magnetic field structure of the striking ring-like molecular cloud G111, near the NGC7538 star-forming region. Using high-sensitivity observations from the IRAM 30-meter telescope combined with data from other facilities, the team applied the Velocity Gradients Technique to map how magnetic forces shaped [...]
The 11th newsletter of the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project is now available. With the EU-funded design study completed, the project has entered its second phase (AtLAST2), supported by a new EU infrastructure grant, focusing on consolidating plans for the next-generation observatory. Read the AtLAST newsletter. Image (C) AtLAST
An international team led by ASTRON and the Observatoire de Paris-PSL has observed the first definitive radio signal of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from a star beyond our Solar System. The eruption was detected from a nearby red dwarf star just 130 light-years away using the LOFAR radio telescope. Such stellar storms, similar to [...]
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