Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) in Sweden is recruiting for a permanent position as Support Engineer/Scientist for geodetic VLBI. See the advertising here. Deadline for application submission is 28 March 2023.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) announces an opportunity to apply for observing time on the MeerKAT telescope. Deadline: 03.05.2023, 12:00 UTC
Using the MeerKAT radio telescope to study a distant galaxy towards PKS 1830-211, scientists discovered something unexpected: gas clouds made up of some of the largest hydrogen atoms in the universe, Rydberg atoms. It is the first time scientists observed these hydrogen atoms in a distant galaxy. Read the SARAO media release here. Image: © [...]
The February 2023 newsletter of the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project has been issued. The ongoing EU-funded design study will deliver, in mid-2024, a full feasibility study that considers the technical, operational, environmental, and scientific challenges of building and operating AtLAST. Image: © AtLAST
The call is open for observing proposals on IRAM telescopes, both the NOEMA interferometer and the 30-meter telescope, for the summer semester 2023. For both observatories, the scheduling period is June 1, 2023 to November 30, 2023. The 30-meter tele- scope will be upgraded in Summer 2023 with observations resuming in early October on a [...]
A Call for Proposals (CfP) with detailed information on Cycle 10 is anticipated to be issued in April 2023, and the deadline for proposal submission will be in May 2023. The purpose of this pre-announcement is to highlight aspects of the CfP to assist with early planning. The anticipated proposal submission deadline for Cycle 10 [...]
The Max Planck Society call for APEX Proposals is open. See the call here. Deadline: 16 February 2023 (18:00 CET). Image: © ESO
The MeerKAT team is awarded the Group Award of the Royal Astronomical Society for a series of spectacular observations in radio astronomy, the highlight being the images of the Galactic Centre region and the spectacular radio bubbles. In addition, the MeerKAT team have supported the development of science and technology in Africa and stress-tested technology [...]
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) scientists discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of the newly coalescing galaxy. These super-hungry giants are the closest together that scientists have ever observed in multiple wavelengths. Read the ALMA press release here. Image: © ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); [...]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and SpaceX have finalized a coordination agreement to mitigate the impact of the company’s Starlink satellites on ground-based radio-, optical-, and infrared-astronomy facilities. The NSF’s public statement is here and the NSF´s NOIRLab (National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory) announcement here. Image: © International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Chu/J. Pollard