A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. This candidate planet is the third detected in the system and the lightest yet discovered orbiting this star. At just a quarter of Earth’s mass, [...]
Until now, astronomers have always assumed that only black holes with strong radiation stop star formation from within the galaxy. This is because these black holes blow away gas, which is the building block for stars. The question, however, is whether galaxies without strongly radiating black holes are also inhibited in their growth. An international [...]
Watch here the message of Mariya Gabriel on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, 2022.
The NRAO will host the 18th Synthesis Imaging Workshop on 18-25 May 2022 (virtual format). The workshop will introduce the participants to aperture synthesis theory and techniques, data calibration, imaging, and analysis methods. The participants will have a chance to see examples and work on data from the Very Large Array (VLA), Very Long Baseline [...]
The Commission adopted on February 9, 2022 the EIC Work Programme 2022. This programme opens funding opportunities worth over €1.7 billion in 2022 for breakthrough innovators to scale up and create new markets, for example in quantum computing, new generation batteries and gene therapy. Launched in March 2021 as a major novelty of the Horizon [...]
See the open ERC Advanced Grant Call 2022 here.
The SKA Observatory (SKAO) has been selected, along with NSF’s NOIRLab, to co-host a new centre that aims to mitigate the impact of satellites on astronomical observations. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) signed a memorandum of understanding with the two co-hosts on February 2, 2022 enacting the creation of a Centre for the Protection of [...]
See here the tentative ERC 2023 call calendar - the dates of the calls are still tentative and subject to change.
The Commission has called for organisations to express their interest in being part of a coalition on reforming research assessment. The coalition will bring together research funding organisations, research performing organisations, national/regional assessment authorities or agencies, associations of research funders, of research performers, of researchers, as well as, learned societies and other relevant organisations, all [...]
The Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA), one of Europe's biggest facilities for astronomical research, operated by the IRAM reached its full sensitivity with the commissioning of its 12th Antenna. Eight years after the inauguration of the first NOEMA antenna, the twelfth NOEMA antenna has joined the array. With this step NOEMA will be ready to [...]