Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the upcoming calendar of remote tutorials and hands-on sessions to be held over the next three months. These activities are organized by multi-messenger experts from the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) project – Joint Centres of Expertise (JCE). The sessions are designed to provide both [...]
e-MERLIN/VLBI National Radio Astronomy Facility Invitation for Proposals: Cycle-23 Deadline for Receipt of Proposals: 13:59:59 UT on 22nd October 2026 Full Details: https://www.e-merlin.ac.uk/observe.html [e-merlin.ac.uk] e-MERLIN requests proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be made during Cycle-23. Proposals are competitively peer-reviewed under standard STFC rules by the e-MERLIN Time Allocation Committee. Awards for accepted proposals [...]
The 8th LOFAR Data School (LDS) took place from September 16 to 23, 2026 at ASTRON in the Netherlands, bringing together around 40 participants for an intensive week of hands-on training in the generation and analysis of LOFAR science-ready data. The diverse program covered techniques for processing and analyzing both interferometric and beam-formed observations across [...]
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 [...]
Astronomers have captured an exceptionally detailed view of a massive binary star system while it is still forming. By monitoring two young massive stars over nearly eight years with ALMA, and combining the observations with data from the VLA, JWST and VLT, the team reconstructed the system’s three-dimensional orbital motion, gas disks and jets. The [...]
An international team has identified the first convincing example of a microblazar in the Milky Way, a black-hole binary system whose powerful jet is directed almost towards Earth. The system, located about 12,000 light-years away, consists of a black hole orbiting a massive star every 11.38 days. Material falling towards the black hole produces powerful [...]
Scientists using the IRAM 30-m Telescope have taken a closer look at 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever identified passing through our Solar System. Their observations provide a rare opportunity to study the composition of material that formed around another star. By observing the gases surrounding 3I/ATLAS, the team was able to identify several molecules [...]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched a series of articles exploring the science, facilities and wider importance of radio astronomy, as well as the growing challenges posed by radio-frequency interference and the rapidly changing space environment. The series covers a broad range of topics, including radio galaxies and black holes, VLBI and geodesy, galaxy [...]
An international team has discovered an exceptionally long-lasting radio outburst from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the nearby galaxy SDSS J110546.07+145202.4, located about 1.8 billion light-years from Earth. The galaxy has remained exceptionally bright at radio wavelengths for more than eight years, with its radio emission increasing by more than a factor [...]
This is a reminder that the European VLBI Network call for proposals deadline is next Thursday (1 October 2026; 16:00 UTC). The next call for proposals is now further away, on 1 April 2027, as the schedule has switched to two calls per year starting in 2027. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your ideas to [...]