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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Germany has awarded a €10.7 million contract to OHB Digital Connect to supply 86 high-frequency receivers for the SKA-Mid radio telescope in South Africa. Signed on 29 October 2025 in Berlin during the launch of Germany’s High-tech Agenda, the contract marks Germany’s first SKAO project since joining the Observatory last year. Contributions from the MPIfR [...]
The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is launching a new series of open community webinars to strengthen communication with its future Science Users’ community. Starting 18 November 2025, the webinars will provide updates on construction progress, rollout plans, tools, and commissioning, followed by live Q&A sessions. Each webinar will be held three times per year, [...]
Applications are now open for the third edition of the CTAO School, which will take place in La Palma, Spain, from 12–22 May 2026. The ten-day programme offers students and postdoctoral researchers a unique opportunity to deepen their expertise in very high-energy (VHE) astrophysics, engage with leading experts, and gain hands-on experience in data analysis [...]
ESA invites scientists to apply for the Archival Research Visitor Programme, offering the opportunity to carry out research using data from the ESA Space Science Archives: Open to researchers from ESA Member and Cooperating States - with early-career scientists and students especially encouraged. Visits can take place at ESAC or ESTEC, typically lasting 1–3 months. [...]
The European VLBI Network (EVN) continues its successful series of online seminars, highlighting the power of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) in modern astronomy. The next seminar will be held on 6 November 2025 at 11:00 CET, presented by Prof. Miguel Pérez-Torres (IAA-CSIC): “New and exciting transient sources unveiled by VLBI.” This talk will explore the [...]
An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, used the NOEMA interferometer to detect the thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect in the distant galaxy cluster CL J1226.9+3332, nearly 7 billion light-years away (read Muñoz-Echeverría M. et al., 2025). By mapping the tSZ signal at unprecedented resolution, NOEMA revealed that the cluster’s hot gas has a surprisingly [...]