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New Leadership Appointed for the RadioNet Consortium

The RadioNet Board has appointed Rob Beswick (University of Manchester) as Spokesperson and Agnieszka Słowikowska (JIV-ERIC) as Vice-Spokesperson of the RadioNet Consortium. Their two-year terms will begin on 1 February 2026. The RadioNet community warmly congratulates Rob and Aga and wishes them every success as they take on these roles. The community also extends its [...]

By | 2026-01-27T10:51:14+00:00 January 27th, 2026|announcement, Uncategorized|Comments Off on New Leadership Appointed for the RadioNet Consortium

Mysterious Million Solar-Mass Dark Object Found in Distant Universe

Astronomers have discovered an invisible object with a mass of about one million Suns that doesn’t fit any known cosmic structure. Using gravitational lensing and data from radio telescopes around the world, including the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), and the European VLBI Network (EVN)—the team revealed a compact core (likely [...]

By | 2026-01-15T12:14:16+00:00 January 15th, 2026|press release, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Mysterious Million Solar-Mass Dark Object Found in Distant Universe

Fringes at 3.5 mm Wavelength Between APEX and Effelsberg!

A symbolic moment in millimetre-wave VLBI at the Max-Planck-Institute für Radioastronomie (MPIfR): For the first time, the 12-meter APEX telescope in Chile and the 100-meter Effelsberg radio telescope in Germany have successfully detected VLBI fringes between them. Both telescopes are operated by the MPIfR). APEX, located at 5100 m altitude on the Chajnantor Plateau in [...]

By | 2025-05-26T12:18:14+00:00 May 26th, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Fringes at 3.5 mm Wavelength Between APEX and Effelsberg!

CPS Newsletter #1

The IAU Centre for the protection of the Dark and Quiet Skys from Satellites Constellation Interface (IAU CPS) has published the first edition of the CPS members newsletter. Read more.

By | 2025-04-01T10:12:30+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on CPS Newsletter #1

EU: SHE FIGURES 2024 published

Equality in research and innovation (R&I) is a core value of the European Union, essential for fostering excellence, diversity, and inclusiveness. Since its first publication in 2003, the She Figures report serves as a key source of comparable, Europe-wide statistics on gender equality in Research and Innovation. In line with previous editions, She Figures 2024 [...]

By | 2025-02-14T10:45:50+00:00 February 14th, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on EU: SHE FIGURES 2024 published

BRAND receiver successfully tested

Initially developed in 2020 under the RadioNet project (EC GA 730562), the BRAND (BRoad bAND) receiver has been successfully tested and partially commissioned at the Effelsberg 100-meter radio telescope, marking a significant advancement in radio astronomy. Designed by Gino Tuccari (INAF) with contributions from MPIfR, OSO, ASTRON, Yebes Observatory, and Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, [...]

By | 2024-12-20T05:41:08+00:00 December 20th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on BRAND receiver successfully tested

First ever binary star found near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory’s [...]

By | 2024-12-18T09:01:28+00:00 December 18th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on First ever binary star found near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy

“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. Located a staggering 160 000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered [...]

By | 2024-11-27T09:07:50+00:00 November 27th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy