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Open e-Merlin Call – Cycle 17

The e-Merlin call for proposals for Cycle 17 is now open. Read the call here. Please use the e-MERLIN proposal tool to submit your proposal. Access/funding is offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. Deadline for proposal submission: 2 November 2023, 13:59:59 UT.  

By | 2023-09-25T13:22:22+00:00 September 25th, 2023|announcement|Comments Off on Open e-Merlin Call – Cycle 17

Poland and the SKAO

JIVE Director Agnieszka Słowikowska at the XLI Meeting of the Polish Astronomical Society in Toruń organised and moderated a session over the prospect of Poland developing closer links with the SKA Observatory. The SKAO sees in Poland a potential partner in Central Europe, building on the Observatory's existing European membership. With VLBI one of the planned observing modes of the [...]

By | 2023-09-22T13:57:43+00:00 September 22nd, 2023|press release|Comments Off on Poland and the SKAO

100-m Effelsberg radio telescope: Open call for proposals

The call for proposals of the 100-m radio telescope (Effelsberg/DE) of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is open. Access/funding is offered through the ORP project. Submission deadline: Deadline 28 September 2023 (15:00 UT) Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)

By | 2023-09-18T08:52:27+00:00 September 18th, 2023|announcement|Comments Off on 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope: Open call for proposals

Furthest ever detection of a galaxy’s magnetic field

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us. The result provides astronomers with vital clues about how the magnetic fields of galaxies like our own Milky Way came to be. Read  ALMA´s [...]

By | 2023-09-07T06:25:34+00:00 September 7th, 2023|announcement, press release|Comments Off on Furthest ever detection of a galaxy’s magnetic field

Record-breaking cold gas discovery in the early Universe

Using the transnational access funded by the EC granted Opticon RadioNet Pilot project, Astronomers have detected cold molecular gas in the form of carbon monoxide in the host galaxy of a supermassive black hole at an early epoch in cosmic history, corresponding to when the Universe was only seven hundred million years old. The discovery [...]

By | 2023-08-29T08:55:28+00:00 August 29th, 2023|announcement, press release|Comments Off on Record-breaking cold gas discovery in the early Universe

Mysterious Neptune dark spot detected from Earth for the first time

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot on the planet has ever been observed with a telescope on Earth. Read more in the ESO press release here.   Image: [...]

By | 2023-08-28T06:51:06+00:00 August 28th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Mysterious Neptune dark spot detected from Earth for the first time

New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars

Using multiple telescopes around the world, including European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, researchers have uncovered a living star that is likely to become a magnetar. This finding marks the discovery of a new type of astronomical object — massive magnetic helium stars — and sheds light on the origin of magnetars. This research was presented [...]

By | 2023-08-21T11:25:19+00:00 August 21st, 2023|press release|Comments Off on New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars

Prof A. Zensus elected to the KoWi Advisory Board

At the KoWi (The EU Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations) general meeting on 10 August 2023, Prof. Dr. Anton Zensus/Director of MPIfR, Scientific Coordinator of the running Opticon RadioNet Pilot project and Coordinator of the former RadioNet project was elected to the KoWi Advisory Board, with immediate effect.

By | 2023-08-16T12:03:31+00:00 August 16th, 2023|announcement|Comments Off on Prof A. Zensus elected to the KoWi Advisory Board

VLA Finds Megastorms on Saturn Disrupt Gas Giant’s Deep Atmosphere in Surprising Ways

A study of rare megastorms on Saturn using data from the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array has revealed disruptions in the distribution of ammonia gas in the planet’s deep atmosphere. The findings raise questions about just how different gas giants can be from each other, and challenge scientists’ understanding of how [...]

By | 2023-08-16T07:11:41+00:00 August 16th, 2023|press release|Comments Off on VLA Finds Megastorms on Saturn Disrupt Gas Giant’s Deep Atmosphere in Surprising Ways