Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot on the planet has ever been observed with a telescope on Earth. Read more in the ESO press release here. Image: [...]
The RadioNet newsletter 07/2023 has ust been issued. Read here.
The hybrid community workshop will take place on 24-27 October 2023 at FORTH in Heralkion/Greece and it aims to to discuss the scientific potential and challenges of a future European wide-field radio interferometer: Recent advances and emerging themes in radio astronomy and transient astrophysics The science priorities for ARGOS: pulsar timing, PTAs, FRBs, cosmology, transients, [...]
The Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) project, developed by the US community under the lead of the of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), has recently been identified as one of the top-priority new ground-based observatories in the recent US decadal report. As such, it is expected to be a key facility for the [...]
In preparation for the 10th EU Framework Program for R&I, the European Commission is setting up a group of experts - their recommendations will be incorporated into the Framework Program. Deadline for the call for appointments is 20 June 2023. More details here.
The call for proposals of the 100-m radio telescope (Effelsberg/DE) of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is open. Access/funding is offered through the ORP project. Submission deadline: 01 June 2023 (15:00 UT) Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)
In a new experiment, Helmut Wiesemeyer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn/Germany and his colleagues have measured the 18O fraction of the upper mesosphere/lower thermosphere for the first time. They used the GREAT receiver aboard the airborne observatory SOFIA and found that the upper atmosphere has an 18O fraction close to that of [...]
The RadioNet newsletter 01/2023 has just been issued. Read here.
Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s Quintet are helping astronomers to understand how turbulence influences gas in the intergalactic medium.New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that a sonic boom several times the size of the Milky Way [...]
The Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) announce up to 7 grants for students to participate in the ASTRON/JIVE 2023 Summer Research Programme. Deadline for applications is February 1, 2023 23:59 CET. More here.