Sweden signs SKAO Convention to join Observatory
Sweden will soon join the SKA Observatory as a member following the signing of the SKA Observatory Convention at an event at the Swedish Embassy in London on 21 January 2025. Read more.
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. Submission deadline: 04 February 2025 (15:00 UT) Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)
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.
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 [...]
First-Ever Detection of a Mid-Infrared Flare in Sagittarius A*, the central source of the Milky Way
Using the MIRI instrument onboard of the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever detection of a mid-IR flare from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. In simultaneous radio observations, the team found a radio counterpart of the flare lagging behind in [...]
Open GMVA Call for Proposals 29 January 2025
The Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) Call for Proposals for observations in Autumn 2025 and later is open. Submission deadline: 29 January 2025
The CTAO Becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium
On 7 January 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. Read more. Image: © Gabriel Pérez Díaz, IAC
RadioNet Newsletter issue 12/2024
The RadioNet Newsletter issue 12/2024 has just been published. Read here.
ESFRI Publishes Activity Report 2021-2023
The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has published its Activity Report 2021-2023, providing a detailed account of its contributions to strengthening the European Research Area (ERA).
Inspiring ERA: Quarterly Newsletter
Read here the new issue of the Inspiring ERA Newsletter.