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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

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

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

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

New ALMA receivers will probe cosmic origins

An international team of astronomers and engineers at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first measurements using new receivers installed on multiple ALMA antennas. This so-called “Band 2” opens a new window into cosmic origins, allowing measurements that reveal how distant stars and galaxies form, all the way down to the origins [...]

By | 2023-08-15T07:12:34+00:00 August 15th, 2023|press release|Comments Off on New ALMA receivers will probe cosmic origins

Setting up for SETI with e-MERLIN

The Breakthrough Listen program aims at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth using the world’s most powerful instruments (e.g. MeerKAT). Until now the use of VLBI for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been limited. University of Manchester Phd student Kelvin Wandia and collaborators demonstrated a new data analysis/interpretation scheme for SETI using VLBI. They have  used the [...]

By | 2023-07-10T07:15:58+00:00 July 10th, 2023|press release|Comments Off on Setting up for SETI with e-MERLIN

Group of LOFAR users from ORP detected unintended electromagnetic radiation emitting from large satellite constellations

For a study to be published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, scientists from a number of leading research institutions, all members of the Opticon-RadioNet Pilot, using LOFAR telescope detected 47 satellites to emit so-called "unintended electromagnetic radiation". Unintended electromagnetic radiation emanates from the electronics of the satellites, not necessarily linked to the transmission system. [...]

By | 2023-07-06T07:53:24+00:00 July 6th, 2023|press release|Comments Off on Group of LOFAR users from ORP detected unintended electromagnetic radiation emitting from large satellite constellations

A new view of the Universe

An international collaboration of European astronomers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) have published the results of more than 25 years of observations from six of the World's most sensitive radio telescopes. Along with other international collaborations, the European and Indian Pulsar Timing [...]

By | 2023-07-06T07:38:57+00:00 June 29th, 2023|announcement, press release|Comments Off on A new view of the Universe

How the black hole in M87 launches a jet

An international team of scientists with participation of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has used new millimetre-wavelength observations to image for the first time the link between the ring-like structure that reveals the matter falling into the central black hole and the powerful relativistic jet in the prominent radio galaxy Messier 87 (M87). [...]

By | 2023-04-27T12:47:08+00:00 April 27th, 2023|announcement, press release|Comments Off on How the black hole in M87 launches a jet