Colloquium: The Radio Anatomy of Protostellar Jets
© Adriana Rodriguez-Kamenetzky Since the term "jet" was first used to describe a feature observed in the galaxy M87 in 1954, technological advances have revealed the existence of jets in a number of...
View ArticleASKAP Surveys of the Magnetised Universe
© “Marion Dingo, POSSUM, 2023, acrylic on canvas” The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is designed to dramatically increase our ability to rapidly survey the radio sky via a broad portfolio of science...
View ArticleHistory does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
© Astron As system engineer you sometimes stare at a picture or plot and spot something unusual. Then the thinking process kick’s in “what could cause this?”. You try to exclude all kind of...
View ArticleSIG Agile
© Barry Overeem, Jan-Paul Ouwerkerk & Rene Lourens On October 3rd, my colleague Karol PopÅawski and I, organized the first Special Interest Group Agile for the institutes of NWO-I. The idea was to...
View ArticleGamen in het Auditorium: Switch Up je Werkdag! / Playing Games in the...
© Gamen in het Auditorium Beste collega's,We hebben een leuke verrassing om de werkdag even te doorbreken: een gamemoment in het auditorium! En niet zomaar gamen, maar we gaan helemaal los met de...
View ArticleSD Day 2024
© SD Group Ever asked a bunch of software engineers to build a Dolmen? On the 24th of October 3 teams from the Software Delivery group tried to do so during the annual group outing. Through a number of...
View ArticleCostume Contest ASTRON
© different people On Thursday, October 31, a Halloween costume contest took place. Many colleagues showed up in the most unique, beautiful, and creative outfits. Candy was handed out, and at the end...
View ArticleOndernemersfair Westerveld
© Scott Polotto & Ellemijn Oosterhuis Last Saturday Scott and Ellemijn were at the Westerveld business fair. A place where entrepreneurs from the area come together and where visitors can visit...
View ArticleLandowners day
© Violette Impellizzeri, Marco Drost, Brian Hare, Olaf Scholten Last Tuesday (12 Nov) a number of LOFAR landowners came together during the landowners day. Violette, Marco, Olaf and Brian talked about...
View ArticleTests at 8.4 GHz with the Dwingeloo Telescope
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema / CAMRAS On Saturday 9 November, we conducted tests with the Dwingeloo telescope using an 8.4 GHz feed ("X-band", 3.5cm wavelength). To our knowledge, this is the...
View ArticleDual Channel RF over Fiber
© Lesley Goudbeek Over the years ASTRON has developed its own RF over Fiber modules. These modules have been used by several institutes around the world, such as MWA (50MHz to 350MHz) and a SKA...
View ArticleOn the road to science with the SKA
© Shari Breen The SKAO Observatory is an inter-governmental organisation established in 2021 to build and operate the two largest radio telescopes on Earth. Now officially in the construction phase,...
View ArticlePV Djembé image
© -"PV Djembé Workshop"Afgelopen dinsdag 12 november hebben collega’s samen het ritme gevonden tijdens een energieke en inspirerende Djembé-workshop. Onder begeleiding van Moustapha Seck werd er flink...
View ArticleILT-TO face to face meeting 19-20 November 2024 at Zandvoort, NL
© Bernard Asabere, Lute van de Bult, Marco Drost, Menno Norden, Henk Mulder, Adriaan Renting This year we had the ILT-TO face to face meeting in Zandvoort. Every few months TO has an ILT-TO video...
View ArticleMother's day storm as seen by LOFAR
© Rebecca Ghidoni (INGV) Remember that strong geomagnetic storm in May this year? When the aurora extended far south and we could see the Northern light with the naked eye even at the LOFAR site in...
View ArticleThe pink hour
© None It's early in the morning. The sleepy sun greets the world by lending a tinge of pink to the low-hanging clouds.Bent over a maquette, the guide of Natuurmonumenten tells about the...
View ArticleRelativity in Carré
© JvL/UvNL/vEtten Many Dutch aspiring comedians hope to one day shine in the limelight of The Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam. They dream about that highlight of their career -- the famous 19th...
View ArticleColloquium: Probing the foreground and source-local medium with fast radio...
© Reshma Anna-Thomas Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, energetic radio emissions originating predominantly from extragalactic sources. While their exact origins remain unknown, these low-frequency...
View ArticleDwingeloo telescope receives signals from Voyager 1
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema / CAMRAS We have used the Dwingeloo radio telescope to receive signals from the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Only a few telescopes in the world have received these signals,...
View ArticleDecember Dress-up Days - Crazy Hat Day
© different people To make these last three weeks before Christmas a bit cozier together, we have created the December Dress-up Days, something crazy every week!Last Tuesday was crazy hat day. Many...
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