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The EVN seminars are back!

By | 2024-10-10T14:09:42+00:00 October 10th, 2024|announcement|

The European VLBI Network announced the relaunch of the virtual seminars, which cover various science topics with different speakers and provide an insightful introduction to cutting-edge research designed for the wider astronomical community.  At the upcoming seminar on 24 October 2024 10:30 CEST with the title The EVN, JIVE and SKA through the decades – [...]

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Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our Sun

By | 2024-10-02T08:33:01+00:00 October 2nd, 2024|press release|

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days. The team’s observations also hint at the existence [...]

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ACME project started

By | 2024-10-01T12:14:24+00:00 October 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|

The EU-funded project ACME (Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger Studies in Europe) officially launched on 1 September 2024. ACME aims to achieve a coordinated, Europe-wide optimization of accessibility and cohesion among leading astroparticle and astronomy research infrastructures. It offers access to cutting-edge instruments, data, and expertise, with a focus on advancing multi-messenger astrophysics. The project brings [...]

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Open e-Merlin Call – Cycle 19

By | 2024-09-27T07:29:51+00:00 September 27th, 2024|announcement|

The e-Merlin call for proposals for Cycle 19 is now open. Read the call here. Please use the e-MERLIN proposal tool to submit your proposal. Access/funding is offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. Deadline: 24 October 2024, 13:59 UT

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Astronomers track bubbles on a star’s surface in the most detailed video yet

By | 2024-09-25T14:50:05+00:00 September 25th, 2024|press release|

For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in July and August 2023. They show giant, hot bubbles of [...]

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SKAO: exciting milestone achieved withrelease of the ‘first fringes’ from the Observatory’s SKA-Low telescope

By | 2024-09-24T12:13:52+00:00 September 24th, 2024|announcement, press release|

First fringes refers to the successful correlation of data from separate antennas stations – in this case two stations – signifying that SKA-Low has begun to work as an interferometer. Both of the SKA Observatory’s telescopes – SKA-Low in Western Australia and its counterpart SKA-Mid in South Africa’s Northern Cape – are radio interferometers. They [...]

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INAF: Open Call

By | 2024-09-24T09:38:02+00:00 September 24th, 2024|announcement|

The call for proposal for observing with the INAF telescopes is open. See here. INAF participates with the Sardinia Telescope (SRT)  in the Transnational Access program of the Opticon Radionet Pilot program (ORP), which is funded by the EC Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 101004719. For observations with the STR [...]

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Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations

By | 2024-09-18T08:39:47+00:00 September 18th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Observations with the LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) radio telescope last year showed that first generation Starlink satellites emit unintended radio waves that can hinder astronomical observations. New observations with the LOFAR radio telescope, the biggest radio telescope on Earth observing at low frequencies, have shown that the second generation ’V2-mini’ Starlink satellites emit up to [...]

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