This online, summer course is open to all, including high school students. If you have ever wanted to explore astronomy, now is your chance!

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And O4b has finally started! 🥳 A huge congratulations to the many individuals who put in a serious amount of hard work to get the detectors and the analysis pipelines ready for this observing run! 👏👏

Tomorrow the second half of the LVK Collaboration’s fourth observing run (O4) begins! Virgo will join LIGO and together they will once again listen to gravitational wave signals from the universe. (1/2)

📢Some very exciting news over the weekend! The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LIGO-EGO & the Virgo Collaboration-KAGRA Gravitational Wave Observatory) collaboration announced the first exceptional event from the fourth observing run, GW230529! 💫
Image: Shanika Galaudage

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, which includes astronomers and scientists from Uni of Birmingham, has detected a remarkable gravitational-wave signal called GW230529:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/mass… Geraint Pratten Patricia Schmidt BIGWaves

News for tertiary education students attending #LISASymposiumXV in July🇮🇪

ESA Education will sponsor travel grants covering the student registration fee and up to €750 for travel and accommodation.

Apply here👇before April 14, 2024
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We had a wonderful time at last week’s LVK Meeting in Baton Rouge! Thank you LSU Phys & Astro for hosting us! We also got to visit LIGO Livingston LIGO Livingston. Special shout-out to Zack for a great tour! Now full steam ahead towards #O4b .

New LIGO Magazine out this week!

Natalie Williams (@cosmic_bae_) from BIGWaves chats with Jess Irwin (@cosmo__jess) about being on parameter estimation rota during #ObservingRun4 .

@LIGO-EGO & the Virgo Collaboration-KAGRA Gravitational Wave Observatory UoB Public Engagement

Read online at (pdf): ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-…

Brilliant astrophysics colloquium today by Prof Anna Watts (Prof Anna Watts) from Anton Pannekoek Institute giving us a NICER view of neutron stars. It was a pleasure to have you at BIGWaves today!