@exgaltwin.bsky.social🌍🔭 ExGal-Twin at AGN on the Beach II (Diani, Kenya 🇰🇪, 21–25 Sept)!
Raffaella Morganti & Tom Oosterloo (Kapteyn/RUG) and Johan Knapen & Anelise Audibert (IAC) joined the discussions on jetted AGN. Thanks to the organisers!
🔗 jb.man.ac.uk/AGNbeachII
@hacks.grA faster satellite internet network could mean a much larger constellation: SpaceX’s Gen 3 proposal allows for up to 100,000 satellites.
Astronomers object…
https://en.hacks.gr/antidraseis-gia-to-schedio-tis-spacex-na-ektoxeysei-100-000-neoys-doryforoys/
@thenrao.bsky.social🚨 Reminder: Jansky Fellowship Applications Due October 28, 2026! 🚨
@debianastro.bsky.social#astrocode #radioastronomy #ScienceSoftware
Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-radio-beam. Radio Beam is a simple toolkit for reading beam information from FITS headers and manipulating beams. Some example applications include Convolution/deconvolution and Unit conversion (Jy
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@thenrao.bsky.socialRadio #ImageoftheWeek
Meet NGC 253, aka the Sculptor Galaxy! 🌌 At ~11.5 million light-years from Earth, it is one of the closest starburst galaxies to the Milky Way. Starburst galaxies transmute gas into new stars up to 1,000 times faster than typical spiral galaxies!
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@profabelmendez.bsky.socialLast month, I spoke with Duncan Lorimer, discoverer of fast radio bursts (FRBs), about FRBs and the Wow! Signal. In 2027, we’ll celebrate three major milestones in #RadioAstronomy: 60 years of pulsars, 50 years of the Wow! Signal, and 20 years of FRBs! 📡
@taramurphy.bsky.socialA fast radio burst at redshift 2, three billion years after the Big Bang!
Exiting new result from @manishacaleb.bsky.social and team using MeerKAT and JWST.
theconversation.com/astronomers-...
#RadioAstronomy ☄️ 🔭 ⚛️
@spaceaustralia.com💥A 10 billion-year-old radio signal reaches Earth 💥
🚨 Exciting new FRB paper led by @sydney.edu.au astronomers @manishacaleb.bsky.social & Dr Themiya Nanayakkara 🚨
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/10-b...
📸 JWST/NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/T. Nanayakkara/J. DePasquale
@thenrao.bsky.socialNEW ➡️ Cosmic Cocktail: Exotic Methanol Discovered in Planet-Building Zones
New results from COMPASS! A major survey of young stars by #ALMA has spotted a rare form of heavy methanol - the first time this molecule has been detected in space.
@noisyastronomer.comSTUNNING radio picture. WOW. #RadioAstronomy
@tonynuspl.bsky.socialThe 1994 song "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden came out a quarter century before this discovery, in 2019, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes
@tvern23.bsky.socialBeautiful #ASKAP image of the skull and crossbones nebula. 🔭 from the EMU survey
@thenrao.bsky.socialWhat’s new with the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA)? 📡
We’ve recently reached some milestones for “first fringes” – meaning successful correlation, combining signals from 2+ separate antennas.
📸 Credit: Scott Broadwell
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@profabelmendez.bsky.socialYou’re looking at the radio sky as seen by the Big Ear telescope in August 15, 1977. The bright structure near 18 hours in right ascension is the plane of our Galaxy. Keep going between 19 and 20 hours; the short red line to the left is the Wow! Signal. #AreciboWow #RadioAstronomy
@thenrao.bsky.social🚨 ALMA Ambassadors (Cycle 14, 2027) application deadline approaching! 🚨
Applications are due October 2, 2026. The #ALMA Ambassadors program provides training and funding to early career researchers interested in sharing their ALMA/interferometry expertise at their own institutions.
@titanobservatory.orgHere's a rendered concept for the Titan Observatory site. The small dishes are replicas of the radio telescope currently connected to the network. The larger 10m is the one we still need funding to purchase.
Learn more: titanobservatory.org
@thenrao.bsky.social“We are experiencing a second golden age of radio astronomy, enabled by technology-driven advances associated with the fourth industrial revolution.”
NSF NRAO’s director Anthony Beasley contributed to this International Telecommunication Union (ITU) article ⤵️
@hstiles1.bsky.socialI love that the wonderful local author Alan Garner, a writer whose work is embedded in the landscape, has been so inspired by the telescope
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #radioastronomy #astronomy
@oopsmyopinion.bsky.socialwww.sciencealert.com/astronomers-...
Sorry, this time it isn't ET phoning home.
#astronomy #radioastronomy #seti #SpaceExploration #Exoplanets #ExtraterrestrialLife