Onsala en Copyright (c) 2010 Chalmers. All rights reserved. http://www.chalmers.se/rss/feed?id=oso_news_en Onsala en Wed, 22 May 2013 05:56:42 +0000 5 webmaster@chalmers.se (Webmaster) Onsala en http://www.chalmers.se/rss/chalmers-logo-feed.png http://www.chalmers.se/rss/feed?id=oso_news_en 144 18 Herschel's last star http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/herschel-s-last-star http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/herschel-s-last-star news_article Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:35:23 +0000 ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, the largest telescope ever flown in space, ended its mission on 29 April 2013 when the telescope ran out of helium coolant. Kay Justtanont, astronomer at Chalmers and Onsala Space Observatory, is the project leader for what turned out to be Herschel's very last observations. Summer school at Onsala space observatory "Molecules in space" 25/6-2/7 2013 http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/summer-school-at-onsala http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/summer-school-at-onsala news_article Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:19:06 +0000 Best ever measurement of how the universe has cooled since the Big bang http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/best-ever-measurement http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/best-ever-measurement news_article Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:40:26 +0000 Astronomers have put the Big bang theory through a tough new test - by measuring the temperature of the universe when it was half as old as it is now. Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen one of the first Wallenberg Academy Fellows http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/kirsten-kraiberg-knudsen http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/kirsten-kraiberg-knudsen news_article Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:51:12 +0000 Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen, astronomer at Chalmers, has been selected as a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. APEX takes part in sharpest observation ever http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/apex-takes-part-in http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/apex-takes-part-in news_article Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:58:55 +0000 An international team of astronomers, including researchers from Onsala Space Observatory, has observed the heart of a distant quasar with unprecedented sharpness, two million times finer than human vision. The observations, made by connecting the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope to two others on different continents for the first time, is a crucial step towards the dramatic scientific goal of the "Event Horizon Telescope" project: imaging the supermassive black holes at the centre of our own galaxy and others. Galaxy harbours many star-snacking black holes http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/galaxy-harbours-many http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/galaxy-harbours-many news_article Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:50:42 +0000 Astronomers have found evidence of hundreds of black holes in a galaxy 250 million light years away. The discovery, made with a worldwide network of radio telescopes, gives scientists a new way to find out how black holes are created. Sweden joins global radio telescope project http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/sweden-joins-global http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/sweden-joins-global news_article Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:18:36 +0000 Onsala Space Observatory, representing Sweden, has been formally accepted as a member of the international consortium which will design the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). When it is completed, the SKA will be the world's largest and most advanced radio telescope. Among its aims is to answer fundamental questions about the universe and Earth's place in it. Pictures from a space observatory http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/pictures-from-space http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/pictures-from-space news_article Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:41:59 +0000 Impressive telescopes usually take centre stage in photographs of Onsala Space Observatory. Maarit Mustonen found other traces of space at the observatory. Giant telescope ALMA to be upgraded with Swedish technology http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/giant-telescope-alma-to http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/giant-telescope-alma-to news_article Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:47:55 +0000 Before its construction is even completed, the new telescope ALMA is embarking on an upgrade - with state-of-the-art technology from Chalmers and Onsala Space Observatory. The upgrade to the giant telescope in Chile will help astronomers to investigate the earliest galaxies and to search for water in other planetary systems. LOFAR unravels colliding galaxy cluster http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/lofar-unravels-colliding http://www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en/news8530/news-archive/lofar-unravels-colliding news_article Wed, 23 May 2012 07:55:51 +0000 An international team of astronomers has used the International LOFAR Telescope to study the formation of the galaxy cluster Abell 2256. This cluster of hundreds of galaxies, 800 million light years distant, turns out to be more complex than expected.