Manchester and Jodrell Bank welcomed the worldwide very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) community for the 17th EVN Symposium and Users' Meeting. Figure 1: EVN Symposium Logo From the 14-19th September 2026, the biennial EVN Symposium came to Manchester for third time in its history, bringing together experts from across the world to discuss VLBI and [...]
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have announced that operational funding for the e-MERLIN radio interferometer will not be renewed beyond March 2028. In response, the University of Manchester, which operates e-MERLIN from the Jodrell Bank Observatory, reaffirmed its commitment to working with partners to explore options for securing [...]
ukSRC proudly presents a Summertime instalment of the Webinar Series; 'Sharing the Sky and Stars: building authentic partnership with local and Indigenous communities' Presented by William Garnier & Liz Williams (SKAO) 7th July 2026, 11:00am-12:00pm BST Register now to attend! Abstract Building a 50-year observatory across two continents — in places that never asked for [...]
The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project has released its May 2026 newsletter, highlighting the transition into the new EU-funded AtLAST2 phase aimed at consolidating plans for the future observatory. Recent activities include continued site characterisation work at Chajnantor in Chile, preparations for future user support services through a community survey, and new studies [...]
For the first time, the KM3NeT and Pierre Auger Collaborations are opening a call to access KM3NeT and Pierre Auger Observatory data, respectively. This new opportunity has been enabled in the framework of the ACME project. You can find the details of the calls in the corresponding webpages: - KM3NeT : https://www.acme-astro.eu/tna-km3net-22-may-2026/ - Pierre Auger [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
The RadioNet newsletter issue 03/2025 is published. Read here.