Using the radio telescope at Westerbork astronomers have discovered two dozen of the unexplained Fast Radio Bursts. After zooming in on the signal of the distant bursts, the astronomers found a striking similarity to the radio flashes emitted by nearby, known neutron stars. The discovery is remarkable because these nearby neutron stars already produce more [...]
A new study led by researchers at Lowell Observatory, combining data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Keck Observatory, has unveiled intriguing findings about planet formation in this binary star system, known as DF Tau, along with other systems in this region. See the results in the scientific paper Sites of Planet Formation [...]
Astronomers have made groundbreaking discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), along with observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The study with the title JWST Mid-infrared Spectroscopy Resolves Gas, Dust, and Ice in Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud is [...]
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 [...]
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world. Read more. Image: © [...]
After taking the first images of black holes, the ground-breaking Event Horizon Telescope and the Global mm-VLBI Array poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team led by scientists from the Onsala Space Observatory, the University Würzburg and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has shown that [...]
The shadow of the black hole in Messier 87 has been imaged with global radio array telescopes over the last years. Joint campaigns have been coordinated annually ever since. An international team of researchers has just released the results of a large campaign on M87 of Event Horizon Telescope and Global mm-VLBI Array observations in [...]
The International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI) 2024, hosted in Brisbane/AU from 3-5 December 2024, brought together policymakers, research institution leaders, and facility operators from around the globe to discuss the pressing challenges and future of research infrastructures. This biennial event provided a unique platform for collaboration, exploration, and innovation across various scientific disciplines. Among [...]
The SKAO has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) with the goal of establishing an SKAO Africa Programme in the next 12 months. Read more here.
The most sensitive map of the gravitational wave sky to date was produced by an international collaboration of researchers. To achieve this goal, the scientists analysed 4.5 years of pulsar data taken with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world. The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array [...]