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Open Science Hub Dwingeloo gets €35.000
© Tobias Oosterhuis The Province of Drenthe and Municipality of Westerveld are jointly contributing €35,000 to refurbishing, innovating and making the Open Science Hub in Dwingeloo even more fantastic!...
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Dr. Danté Follows the Flashes
© Hessels On Monday December 16th, 2024, Danté Hewitt successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled "Following the Flashes: Monitoring and Localising Repeating Fast Radio Bursts", at the Agnietenkapel...
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30 years and moving forward
© JIVE This past year, JIVE celebrated its 30-year anniversary and 10 years as an ERIC. Our celebrations were heartfelt and full of pride, marked by the anniversary session at the EVN Symposium in Bonn...
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Radio 1 live broadcast from the Dwingeloo telescope
© NPO Radio 1 In the early morning hours (2AM-5AM) on December 16, the radio program 'De nacht van KRO-NCRV' broadcast a special three-hour episode live from the Dwingeloo telescope.The programme was...
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Happy Holidays
© ASTRON On behalf of our Board, Management Team and all of our staff, we wish you Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2025!
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Weet Je Dat Ook Weer - LOFAR
© Henk Mulder, Zabet Ahmadi, Bart Lijdsman, Dion Huiberts Bart Lijdsman, from the YouTube channel Weet Je Dat Ook Weer (weetjedatookweer.nl), recently visited the LOFAR superterp and the Astron HQ. The...
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Happy Holidays
© ASTRON On behalf of our Board, Management Team and all of our staff, we wish you Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2025!
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A repeating fast radio burst source in a low-luminosity dwarf galaxy
© Hessels/Hewitt/ASTRON Sometimes you need to dig really deep to see what's going on. In a paper recently published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters by just-graduated API/ASTRON PhD candidate Danté...
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Westerbork RT1 observing efficiency in 2024
© ASTRON In 2024, the Westerbork single 25-m dish known as RT1 delivered outstanding scientific results, thanks in large part to an impressive observing efficiency of 86.3%! Here's the breakdown: VLBI...
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2nd year research practicum at UvA and ASTRON
© Ziggy Pleunis/ASTRON Last week four 2nd-year University of Amsterdam BSc students in physics & astronomy, Dominique, Dunya, Duran and Jua, visited ASTRON for three days as part of a one-week...
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European Pulsar Timing Array Wins Two Prestigious Awards
© EPTA The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) has received two prestigious awards: the 2024 International Congress of Basic Sciences (ICBS) Frontiers of Science Award in China and the 2025 Royal...
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NOVA-SKIES: A programme on entrepreneurial skills and career development for...
© Dr Giovanna Pugliese The NOVA-SKIES (Skilled, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Scientists) programme is the implementation in the Netherlands of the original SKIES project, funded by the EU (through...
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Colloquium: It Takes Two: Addressing Astrophysical Problems with Multiple...
© Trent Dupuy Multiple systems offer a unique perspective on various questions across star and planet formation and evolution. For one, there is a long tradition of binary systems providing...
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[Colloquium] Recent Advances in AGN Jet Studies Enabled by the Global VLBI...
© Jongho Park Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) achieves ultrahigh angular resolution by utilizing widely separated radio telescopes. The quality of VLBI images improves with more participating...
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CHIME/FRB Face-to-Face Meeting at McGill University
© Afrokk Khan The annual meeting of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment - Fast Radio Burst project (CHIME/FRB for short!) was held this year at McGill University in Montréal, Canada....
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Colloquium: Pushing LOFAR to its limits with ultra-deep, high-resolution,...
© Jurjen de Jong Recently, we have successfully imaged several LOFAR deep fields at the highest resolutions (e.g. Lockman Hole, ELAIS-N1, and Boötes), revealing the universe in unprecedented detail at...
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Colloquium: Population III stars: the window to cosmic dawn
© Piyush Sharda Population III stars were the first stars that formed in the Universe, a mere 200 - 300 million years after the Big Bang. These stars produced the first supernovae and black holes,...
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Opening Open Science Hub Exloo
© Team Communications Opening of the Open Science Hub ‘De Oerknal’ in ExlooLast Tuesday, February 11, we officially opened the Open Science Hub ‘De Oerknal’ in Exloo. After years of development, the...
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New Technology for Ultra-Fast Data Transfer: SURF and ASTRON Establish 400G...
© ASTRON SURF and ASTRON have implemented the OpenZR+ technology to establish a 400G network connection, significantly enhancing scientific research in the Netherlands. This upgrade enables the...
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The LOFAR core from above
© Oeds van der Wal This photo shows the LOFAR core in an unusual perspective. It is a 360 photo taken from a drone, taken by Oeds van der Wal and published on google maps in 2022. By reprojecting it to...
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