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  • 2023

    • The renewal of the Yebes Observatory is now ready

    The ministery of transport, movility and urban agenda has inaugurated today the new facilities and infrastructures of the Yebes Observatory at Guadalajara, strengthening it as a worldwide reference in radioastronomy. This renewal has been co-financed by the european funds FEDER. Some of the updates include a new laser telemetry system, to allow the monitoring the geodynamical changes of our planet. This enhancement makes Yebes become one of the eight fundamental stations of Geodetic observation of the Global Geodetic Observing System.

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    A new image of the M87 black hole reveals the birth of the powerful jet of particles emanating from its shadow.

    An international scientific team, with the participation of the Yebes Observatory (IGN, MITMA) and the University of Valencia, has just published a new image of the black hole in M87, showing, for the first time, the birth of a powerful jet of particles emanating from its central region.

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  • 2022

    • RADIOBLOCKS: A New European Consortium to develop Next Generation Technologies for Radio Astronomy Infrastructures

    The RADIOBLOCKS project, coordinated by JIVE ERIC and including major European research infrastructures for radio astronomy such as the Yebes Observatory, together with partners from industry and academia, has been granted 10 M€ by the European Commission to develop “common building blocks” for technological solutions beyond state-of-the-art, that will enable a broad range of new science and enhance European scientific competitiveness. The RADIOBLOCKS project will start on 1 March 2023.

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  • 2021

    • The IGN 40m radio telescope participates in the discovery in space of a key molecule in the origin of life: ethanolamine.

    The Spanish 40m radio telescopes of the Yebes Observatory, equipped with the Nanocosmos receiver, and the 30m radio telescope of IRAM have detected for the first time ethanolamine in interstellar space. Ethanolamine is one of the components of phospholipids, the molecules that make up cell membranes. This discovery will help to understand how the first cell membranes could have formed, a crucial issue in the origin of life.

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    Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the interstellar medium

    The 40m radio telescope of the Yebes Observatory has made the first unambiguous detection of a pure PAH (indene) in an unexpected place. This has been possible thanks to the new Q- and W-band radio astronomical receivers, built by IGN engineers within the Nanocosmos-ERC project funded by the European Research Council. Since their commissioning, these new highly sensitive receivers are providing new and valuable information on the interstellar medium and have turned the 40m radio telescope into a highly competitive instrument in the international panorama.

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