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UCU students visit WSRT and LOFAR
© Ger de Bruyn It is now a yearly tradition for 8-10 students from the University College Utrecht to visit the radio telescopes in Westerbork and Exloo. They are guided by Dr. Filipe Freire who is...
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Third DOME face-to-face meeting: progress and plans
© Copyright: ASTRON / IBM / SKA-South Africa DOME is the research project in which ASTRON and IBM have joined forces to create new technology for handling the huge amounts of data that will be...
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Physics teacher of the year-award for former educational coordinator ASTRON
© Annette de Boer On Friday 19 April, Annette de Boer, coordinator for education and diversity at ASTRON during 2010-2012, won the award for Physics teacher of the year at the FYSICA 2013 event at the...
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Successful integration and test of new APERTIF receivers
© ASTRON, 2013 Over the last couple of years, APERTIF has been demonstrating the feasibility of Phased Array Feeds using a prototype system in one of the WSRT dishes. In parallel, hardware and firmware...
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Prof. Steve Rawlings SKA Board Room
© ASTRON & SKA Last week, the EVN, JIVE and SKA Board of Directors met at the SKA Office Head Quarters at Jodrell Bank. It was a very busy week concluded on Friday 19th of April with the opening of...
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Comet meets Galaxy
© astropix.nl On the night of April 2nd, comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) was very close to the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), a rare photo opportunity. On a visit to Rik ter Horst in Ewer in the north of the...
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Crown-princessly visit to WSRT
© Jacob Baars Hierbij een paar opnamen van het bezoek van Beatrix en Claus aan Westerbork. Het moet ergens in 1973/74 geweest zijn tijdens een priv�ezoek aan de provincie Drenthe. Ik herinner me het...
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Crown-princessly visit to WSRT
© Jacob Baars Hierbij een paar opnamen van het bezoek van Beatrix en Claus aan Westerbork. Het moet ergens in 1973/74 geweest zijn tijdens een priv�ezoek aan de provincie Drenthe. Ik herinner me het...
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Royal Patronage
© Harm-Jan Stiepel Today marks the coronation of our new King Willem Alexander and his much-admired Queen Maxima. The sister institutes ASTRON and JIVE feel particularly favoured by the House of...
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IAUS291 "Neutron Stars and Pulsars" Proceedings
© CUP/IAU/JvL IAU Symposium 291 "Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years", held in Beijing 2012, featured a rich harvest of recent scientific discoveries, looking forward...
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Karting, karting, karting,.... Rawhide!
© JEN Last week (25 april), the ASTRON/JIVE personnel club (PV) organized another karting event, this time on the outdoor track in Pottendijk, near Emmen. In the end, Roelof Boesenkool prevailed over...
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First solar radio burst observed by LOFAR test array at Birr Castle, Ireland
© Trinity College Dublin The I-LOFAR test array of four Low Band Antennas (LBAs) hooked up to two e-Callisto receivers was installed at Birr Castle Demesne on April 18 and 19, 2013. As luck (of the...
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Special message received by LOFAR
© Oranje Bevrijdings Comit�ekela One day after the coronation of our new King, Willem Alexander of the House of Orange, one of the antennas of the giant LOFAR radio telescope received a special message...
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"Radio Astronomy" MSc course at U. Amsterdam
© ASTRON/UvA Given the importance of training future astronomers in both the science and techniques involved in radio astronomy, three ASTRON staff astronomers (Hessels, van Leeuwen and Wise) are...
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Orange webs
© Ger de Bruyn The WSRT, an East-West array, requires 12 hours to fill the uv-plane, using Earth rotation Synthesis, and make high qulity images. That is of course great if you want sensitivity as...
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Cold Chopper Demonstrator Hardware Ready
© Lars Venema METIS, the future mid-infrared instrument for the European-Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), has to observe the IR radiation from celestial objects through a "hot" atmosphere via a "hot"...
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Girlsday 2013
© Harm-Jan Stiepel Last thursday (25th of April) ASTRON, JIVE and the NOVA Optical/ Infrared group at ASTRON organised the Girlsday for high school girls. Girlsday is a European initiative to make...
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Cold Chopper Demonstrator Hardware Ready
© Lars Venema METIS, the future mid-infrared instrument for the European-Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), has to observe the IR radiation from celestial objects through a "hot" atmosphere via a "hot"...
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Girlsday Drawings
© ASTRON + Girlsday-Girls 2013 Following up on a recent daily image, today we present the wonderful artwork that the Girlsday-Girls have produced at ASTRON as part of the Girlsday 2013. One of the...
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"Locating Astrophysical Transients"
© JIVE/ASTRON This week, Zsolt Paragi (JIVE) and Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON) are organizing a workshop about fast detection and localization of astrophysical transient sources in the radio regime. The...
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