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ASTRON celebrates its 75th birthday!
© ASTRON/Studio Eigen Merk On 23 April 1949 - 75 years ago -, the precursor to ASTRON, known as SRZM (Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy), was established officially. Prof. Jan Oort served as...
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ASTRON's Radio Stars Shine at MIT Haystack
© Nancy Kotary Last week, ASTRON's Radio Stars and Exoplanets Team team had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Radio Stars workshop at MIT Haystack, USA. From networking with top...
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Colloquium: The first inroads into the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum
© Credit: Daniëlle Futselaar / MPIfR (artsource.nl) Supermassive black holes at the centres of merging galaxies are expected to form binary systems whose orbital motion generates gravitational waves. A...
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Colloquium: The origins of solar energetic particles in the heliosphere...
© Diana Morosan Energetic particle populations are ubiquitous throughout the Universe and often found to be accelerated by astrophysical shocks. One of the most prominent sources for energetic...
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Dwingeloo Telescope postcard 1955
© - This postcard is probably from late 1955: it shows the finished Dwingeloo Telescope, but the area is still a construction site, far from ready for the official opening on 17 April 1956.Part of the...
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A special lens for Jekels Jacht
© NTR/Rik ter horst In his program 'Jekels Jacht', Diederik Jekel revisits significant experiments from our rich scientific history, recreating them to highlight their importance and impact. In the...
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Opening Hallenhoes
© Danja Politis (3D visualization) & Joanne Jager (Photos) Last Thursday (May 16) was the opening of the Hallenhoes in Exloo. In addition to the Schaapskooi shop, the TIP and the restaurant, ASTRON...
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SKAO Speaker Series
© SKAO On May 21st, 2024, I gave an online talk as part of the SKAO Speaker Series. My and other previous talks are available to view online. It's a great way to see some highlights of the science that...
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Planar view of 90 pulsar profiles from the European Pulsar Network database
© Dany Vohl Graphs have only been around since Leonhard Euler solved the crossing problem of the Seven Bridges of Königsberg in 1736. Their exploration and use have served various areas of interest,...
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Colloquium: What can we learn from radio magnetars?
© Gregory Desvignes Magnetars are young and highly magnetized neutron stars, powered by the decay of their large magnetic field. They exhibit a wide variety of X-ray activity but only a fraction of...
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Colloquium: Galaxy Clusters at Low Radio Frequencies
© van Weeren The vast majority of the baryonic matter in the Universe is in the form of plasma, and most of this plasma resides in the large-scale cosmic web structure of the Universe. It is only in...
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PhD defence Emma van der Wateren
© Maarten Joore, Peter Trúchly On June 10th, Emma van der Wateren successfully defended her thesis titled "Illuminating the properties of radio pulsars and their binary companions through pulsar...
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New aerial image of the superterp
© CC-BY 4.0 data.overheid.nl As every year, the Dutch Kadaster has published new aerial imagery of The Netherlands. This provides a nice look of the superterp. Because the photos are on high resolution...
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Videowall upgrade Control room - LOFAR 2.0 Operations
© Derkjan Pepping, Henk Mulder With the commissioning and LOFAR2 monitoring screens being developed by the Operators, the old LOFAR video wall setup Operations has used for many years was not big...
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SRCNet PI planning goes Gothenburg
© Janneke de Boer As every quarter, the SRCNet planned for the upcoming three months. Until now, the plannings were organized remotely. This time however, was the first time we organized this planning...
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No strings attached
© D Pepping Normally, our daily images tell you about fibre cables or harddisks, but not this time. This daily image tells you about old-fashioned steel cables and steel discs.After 50 years of service...
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[Colloquium] WRC-23 key outcomes related to radio astronomy
© n/a Radio astronomy was recognized as a passive service by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 1959. Since then, spectrum bands important to the Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) have...
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Astropy Goes Dutch
© Astropy Team Astropy â https://www.astropy.org â is a community effort to develop a common core library for astronomy in the Python programming language, and to foster an ecosystem of...
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Ambient-L: an ambient-temperature L-band receiver for the Westerbork radio...
© ASTRON With funding from a recently awarded NWO-M Invest grant, the ASTRON Smart Frontend group will design and deploy Ambient-L: a new high-sensitivity, energy efficient, ambient-temperature radio...
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LOFAR e-learning course
© - SDCO is excited to introduce the new e-learning course designed for new users of LOFAR. Whether you are considering using LOFAR data, writing a proposal, or simply interested in low-frequency...
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