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ASTRON colleagues forfeit in fight for Olympic gold
© Roelie Kremers At ASTRON's open day, Roelie Kremers, Harianne ter Meer, and Arno Gregoor took a small trip in one of the canoes. The trip fell short as the passengers of the canoe fell into the...
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Another filming crew at the WSRT
© Arjen Schotel On 17 October another filming crew visited the WSRT. Arjen Schotel and his colleagues shot footage of the telescope for a new short film about the connection between humans and the...
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100,000x faster than the blink of an eye
© Futselaar & Snelders In a paper published on October 19th by ASTRON/UvA PhD student Mark Snelders, entitled Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A (Snelders et al. 2023, Nature...
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Het Geheime Heelal (The Secret Universe)
© FutselaarDaniëlle Futselaar is well known to many at ASTRON and JIVE for her beautiful artwork, which has featured in many press releases, on the covers of magazines, and in newspapers. Recently,...
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150 tours in the Dwingeloo telescope
© CC-BY 4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema The Dwingeloo telescope concluded its main tourist season for 2023 with the 'Nacht van de nacht' event last weekend.Since 2022, the telescope has held open days during...
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Making the workplace a vibrant space
© Frank Nuijens Everybody knows or has heard or seen pictures of the famous âGoogleâ office space with keyboard vending machines, free lunch, colourful and inviting interior with vibrant...
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PhD defense Kasia Beser
© Maaijke Mevius, Kasia Beser On November 9th 2023 Katarzyna BeÅer successfully defended her PhD thesis: "Application of LOFAR calibration solutions in space weather studies" at CBK PAN, Warsaw. In...
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LOFAR meets Euclid
© LOFAR: R. J. van Weeren; Euclid: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO; Composition and final adjustments by F....
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Colloquium: AT2023fhn (“the Finch”) and other animals
© Ashley Chrimes The extragalactic sky is full of transient phenomena, across the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond. These transients include cataclysmic events such as core-collapse supernovae,...
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"See you soon" party for John McKean
© Hessels On Wednesday November 15th, 2023, we held a borrel for John McKean to wish him well in the new adventure that he'll be taking up in South Africa. John will be at ASTRON less in the coming...
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Colloquium: Exploring the radio emission of Ultracool Dwarfs with VLBI
© Joan Bautista Climent The field of compact radio emission in objects with spectral type later than M7 (ultracool dwarfs; UCDs) is vastly unexplored, with only a few successful detections. However,...
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Aftermovie Klokhuis Vragendag 2023
© NPO On Saturday Oct 7 Klokhuis organized their annual Question Day, in Nemo, the Science Museum in Amsterdam. Entry requirements: having a question. Hundreds of kids and their parents came to Nemo...
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Daniëlle Futselaar's astronomy art inducted into the collection of...
© Jason Hessels On Sunday November 26th, 2023, long-time ASTRON/JIVE collaborator Daniëlle Futselaar gifted her entire astronomy art collection - past, present, and future - to Rijksmuseum Boerhaave,...
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Oli Boersma successfully defends thesis
© OB/JVL On Thursday November 23 Oli Boersma successfully defended his thesis at the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam. The thesis is an impressive combination of observational, theoretical and methodological...
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MSc thesis prize for David Konijn
© Hessels On November 27th, 2023, ASTRON PhD student David Konijn received a Jong Talent Afstudeerprijs voor Sterrenkunde (MSc thesis prize) from the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der...
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From the archive: Sinterklaas at ASTRON
© Unknown I found this photo of Sinterklaas and one of his assistants in the archive of ASTRON. It contains no date, but the cars in the parking give an indication of the year this picture was taken -...
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A new captain of Astrolunch
© CC-BY-NC-SA (credit: Jason Hessels) Astrolunches are at the heart of the scientific atmosphere at ASTRON and JIVE. I took over organizing them from the indomitable Jason Hessels five years ago. Jason...
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Kootwijk Würzburg restored
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 Museum Vliegbasis Deelen / ASTRON archive As announced last year, the first telescope of ASTRON has been found. This Würzburg Riese parabola was restored by volunteers of Museum...
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PSR J0210+5845; An ultra wide binary pulsar with a B6V main-sequence star...
© E. van der Wateren, C. G. Bassa, G. H. Janssen, I. V. Yanes-Rizo, J. Casares, G. Nelemans, B. W. Stappers, and C. M. Tan PSR J0210+5845 is a ~1.8-s pulsar that was discovered as part of the LOFAR...
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LOFAR Uncovers a twisted AGN radio remnant in Abell 1318
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 (Credit: Aleksandar Shulevski) In one of the LoTSS DR2 mosaics, this beautiful very low surface brightness emission region was detected which prompted an extended observing campaign to...
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