{"id":42,"date":"2017-09-03T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scidev\/wordpress\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:08:28","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/welcome\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"APEX News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feedzy-cb9f1bea3a26462d529f7861d101e1a7 feedzy-rss\"><ul>Feed has no items.<\/ul> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-subtitle stk-block-subtitle stk-block stk-527b027\" data-block-id=\"527b027\"><p class=\"stk-block-subtitle__text stk-subtitle\"><strong>MPIfR News<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"feedzy-e9c608fe2e673a41aa44f25ea785f4b6 feedzy-rss\"><ul><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/mw-extension-hercules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"The Milky Way Trail leads to the DLR in K\u00f6ln-Porz\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/9519315\/original-1793818996.jpg?t=ZXlKM2FXUjBhQ0k2TnpVd0xDSm9aV2xuYUhRaU9qVXdNQ3dpWm1sMElqb2lZM0p2Y0NJc0ltOWlhbDlwWkNJNk9UVXhPVE14TlgwPS0tZjlkZWIwMmZmNjViN2Q2NjQ3ODRmMTZmZTUyOGFlZmJmNzYxOTM2Mw\" title=\"The Milky Way Trail leads to the DLR in K\u00f6ln-Porz\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/mw-extension-hercules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">The Milky Way Trail leads to the DLR in K\u00f6ln-Porz<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-11-05 at 18:00 <\/small><p>Extension of the hiking trail from the Effelsberg radio telescope to the Hercules Galaxy<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/firstlight-award-for-dr-vivek-venkatraman-krishnan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Schmidt Sciences FirstLight Award for Dr. Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/9519031\/original-1793712591.png?t=ZXlKM2FXUjBhQ0k2TnpVd0xDSm9aV2xuYUhRaU9qVXdNQ3dpWm1sMElqb2lZM0p2Y0NJc0ltOWlhbDlwWkNJNk9UVXhPVEF6TVgwPS0tOGQ2MWQxZTc5Y2M5MDNhNThkYjRiOThhYjI2NWMwYTAyNWM4NGJiYg\" title=\"Schmidt Sciences FirstLight Award for Dr. Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/firstlight-award-for-dr-vivek-venkatraman-krishnan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Schmidt Sciences FirstLight Award for Dr. Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-11-04 at 14:00 <\/small><p>The MPIfR researcher will lead an international effort to discover extreme binary pulsars with the Deep Synoptic Array, opening new opportunities to test gravity and investigate ultra-dense matter.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/unexpectedly-young-galaxy-with-a-bar-discovered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Unexpectedly young galaxy with a bar discovered\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/9511588\/original-1792144392.jpg?t=ZXlKM2FXUjBhQ0k2TnpVd0xDSm9aV2xuYUhRaU9qVXdNQ3dpWm1sMElqb2lZM0p2Y0NJc0ltOWlhbDlwWkNJNk9UVXhNVFU0T0gwPS0tNmI3YzRhZDU4NmRhODhiOGRiMGI2NWE4YjU5MTAyYzNkNDc1YTE2Yg\" title=\"Unexpectedly young galaxy with a bar discovered\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/unexpectedly-young-galaxy-with-a-bar-discovered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Unexpectedly young galaxy with a bar discovered<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-10-16 at 10:30 <\/small><p>Bars are elongated structures of stars that extend across the central regions of galaxies, such as the Milky Way. They play a critical role in galaxy evolution by driving gas and dust toward galactic centres. An international team, which includes Axel Wei\u00df from the MPIfR, could recently detect a bar-like structure in the dust emission of GN20 using the IRAM NOEMA interferometer. This massive and dusty starburst galaxy in the constellation Great Bear (Ursa Major) is observed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang \u2013 and should not yet have a bar, according to classical models of bar formation.\u00a0These findings motivated a follow-up study using the James Webb Space Telescope to peer through GN20\u2019s extreme dust obscuration. The team observed a previously hidden stellar bar, associated with intense star formation. The finding provides new insights into how gas-rich galaxies assembled and evolved in the early Universe.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/mw-extension-lmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"The Milky Way Trail leads to the&amp;nbsp; Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium in Meckenheim\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/9505196\/original-1791455830.jpg?t=ZXlKM2FXUjBhQ0k2TnpVd0xDSm9aV2xuYUhRaU9qVXdNQ3dpWm1sMElqb2lZM0p2Y0NJc0ltOWlhbDlwWkNJNk9UVXdOVEU1Tm4wPS0tYzFkZjQzYTg2ODY1OWE0ZTc2N2NhYTliNmM1YjA4OTQzMDVjYjc1NQ\" title=\"The Milky Way Trail leads to the&amp;nbsp; Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium in Meckenheim\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/mw-extension-lmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">The Milky Way Trail leads to the&nbsp; Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium in Meckenheim<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-10-12 at 10:00 <\/small><p>Extension of the hiking trail from the Effelsberg Radio Telescope to the Large Magellanic Cloud<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/record-breaking-fast-radio-burst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Record-breaking radio burst just three billion years after the Big Bang\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/9505773\/original-1791460466.jpg?t=ZXlKM2FXUjBhQ0k2TnpVd0xDSm9aV2xuYUhRaU9qVXdNQ3dpWm1sMElqb2lZM0p2Y0NJc0ltOWlhbDlwWkNJNk9UVXdOVGMzTTMwPS0tMWQyZmE2ZTZjZTY4MGI3MDIwNmNjOWEwMDA3NGI4NmJmOGUzMzE3NQ\" title=\"Record-breaking radio burst just three billion years after the Big Bang\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/announcements\/2026\/record-breaking-fast-radio-burst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Record-breaking radio burst just three billion years after the Big Bang<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-10-08 at 18:00 <\/small><p>What mysterious phenomenon is capable of creating a millisecond-long blast of radio waves so powerful that we can detect it from billions of light-years away? Clues to the origin of such events, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), can be found in a recently discovered source.<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul> <\/div><style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{float:left;position:relative;border:none;text-decoration:none;max-width:100%}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image span{display:inline-block;position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;background-position:50%;background-size:cover}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{margin:.3em 1em 0 0;content-visibility:auto}.feedzy-rss ul{list-style:none}.feedzy-rss ul li{display:inline-block}<\/style>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ESO News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"feedzy-e5479eaa1f3f794e99015e6359677af3 feedzy-rss\"><ul><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2613\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Dead star and planetary bodies: astronomers spot unique disc of debris that foretells Solar System\u2019s future\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.eso.org\/images\/screen\/eso2613a.jpg\" title=\"Dead star and planetary bodies: astronomers spot unique disc of debris that foretells Solar System\u2019s future\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2613\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Dead star and planetary bodies: astronomers spot unique disc of debris that foretells Solar System\u2019s future<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-10-27 at 13:00 <\/small><p>Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have found a rare disc of debris around a dead star that provides a glimpse of what may happen to our Solar System. Unlike in similar systems previously found, the debris \u2014 the leftovers of planets that once orbited the star \u2014 is organised in a double disc, the two parts separated by a clear gap. The disc appears to be shaped by two planetary bodies, one possibly as big as Pluto, that have survived the violent death of the star.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2612\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Milky Way&#039;s fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.eso.org\/images\/screen\/eso2612a.jpg\" title=\"Milky Way&apos;s fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2612\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Milky Way's fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-08-19 at 15:00 <\/small><p>Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its centre. The star, named S301, was detected with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO\u2019s VLTI) and reaches speeds of 25 000 km\/s as it travels around the four-million-Solar-mass black hole. It comes closer to it than any other observed before, so close that it feels the effects of the black hole\u2019s rotation.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.eso.org\/images\/screen\/eso2611a.jpg\" title=\"Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-07-28 at 12:00 <\/small><p>At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a team led by French researcher Miguel Montarg\u00e8s obtained the clearest image ever of what likely is Betelgeuse B, the star orbiting Betelgeuse. \u201cThis is the conclusion of a century-long quest,\u201d says Montarg\u00e8s.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2610\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"New \u2018exomoon\u2019 detection challenges cosmic labels\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.eso.org\/images\/screen\/eso2610a.jpg\" title=\"New \u2018exomoon\u2019 detection challenges cosmic labels\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2610\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">New \u2018exomoon\u2019 detection challenges cosmic labels<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-07-22 at 15:00 <\/small><p>Observations made with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger than a planet, that orbits the CD-35 2722 star. If confirmed, this could be the first \u2018moon\u2019 discovered outside our Solar System.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2609\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.eso.org\/images\/screen\/eso2609a.jpg\" title=\"Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2609\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 2026-07-15 at 12:00 <\/small><p>A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b \u2014 the first planet discovered in the same system \u2014 and is among the lightest exoplanets ever to be imaged from the ground. After spotting the planet using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), the team found it had been hiding in archive observations spanning more than a decade.<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul> <\/div><style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{float:left;position:relative;border:none;text-decoration:none;max-width:100%}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image span{display:inline-block;position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;background-position:50%;background-size:cover}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{margin:.3em 1em 0 0;content-visibility:auto}.feedzy-rss ul{list-style:none}.feedzy-rss ul li{display:inline-block}<\/style>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPIfR News ESO News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","education-hub-thumb":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Feed has no items. MPIfR News The Milky Way Trail leads to the DLR in K\u00f6ln-Porzon 2026-11-05 at 18:00 Extension of the hiking trail from the Effelsberg radio telescope to the Hercules GalaxySchmidt Sciences FirstLight Award for Dr. Vivek Venkatraman Krishnanon 2026-11-04 at 14:00 The MPIfR researcher will lead an international effort to discover extreme binary pulsars with the Deep Synoptic Array, opening new opportunities to test gravity and investigate ultra-dense matter.Unexpectedly young galaxy with a bar discoveredon 2026-10-16 at 10:30 Bars are elongated structures of stars that extend across the central regions of galaxies, such as the Milky Way.&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"apex","url":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/author\/apex\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5247,"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/5247"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apex-telescope.org\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}