The SKAO has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) with the goal of establishing an SKAO Africa Programme in the next 12 months. Read more here.
The most sensitive map of the gravitational wave sky to date was produced by an international collaboration of researchers. To achieve this goal, the scientists analysed 4.5 years of pulsar data taken with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world. The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array [...]
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“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 [...]
The APEX telescope in Chile has now fully integrated into the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) with a successful 3mm wavelength operation. Thanks to the new 3mm receiver installed in APEX, we detected interferometric fringes between APEX and other antennas around the globe, verified through MPIfR’s correlator centre. This breakthrough was achieved during observations from 11-13 [...]
The MAGIC collaboration encourages external scientists to propose observations using the MAGIC telescopes, with observation time granted by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) based on scientific merit. There is no predefined allocation of time between internal or external collaborators. The ACME project enables transnational access (TA) on the basis of scientific merit to a wide range [...]
Germany has been admitted as the twelfth member of the international astronomy organisation the SKA Observatory. As the first official act of its SKAO membership, Germany will host the next SKAO Science Conference, which will take place at the DZA site in Görlitz from 16-20 June 2025. Read more here.
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The Gruber Foundation invites nominations on behalf of individuals whose achievements in Cosmology, Genetics, or Neuroscience would make them suitable candidates for recognition through the 2025 Gruber International Prize Program. Each prize, which is accompanied by a $500,000 unrestricted monetary award, is designed both to recognize groundbreaking work in each field and to inspire additional efforts [...]
The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy hosted the 16th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting in Bonn, Germany, from 2 to 6 September. More than 160 participants from 22 countries on five continents attended the meeting. Due to a significant mismatch between the number of participants expressing interest in oral presentations and the [...]