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JIVE VLBI School 1995
© JIVE Twenty years ago, a number of enthousiastic students (including the submitter) received an invitation to participate the JIVE VLBI School, signed by the co-chairs of the organizing committee...
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An invitation
© JIVE Today, about 200 guests join the inauguration of JIVE as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in Dwingeloo. The inauguration speakers will include Robert-Jan Smits, the...
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What's in a name?
© JIVE The JIVE Council gathers in front of the new logo, just introduced to the crowd celebrating the inauguration of JIVE as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium. A little bit more than...
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Girlsday 2015
© Harm-Jan Stiepel / ASTRON Today, the annual Girlsday will take place. ASTRON, JIVE, NOVA and CAMRAS will participate in the Girlsday, just like last year. The main purpose of this event is to immerse...
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ASTRON/DOME at the Hannover Messe 2015
© ASTRON Last week, the world's most important industrial fair, the Hannover Messe, took place, and of course ASTRON was attending. This year, one of the central themes is R&D. On 14 April, ASTRON...
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Suffused by Golden (orange) Light
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) Today marks the birthday of King Willem Alexander. Over the years, the House of Orange has bestowed much gracious attention on the work of ASTRON and JIVE. The...
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ASTRON-SHAO Radio Astronomy Science Data Centres Collaboration
© ASTRON In 2001 the META Group observed that increasing 'volume', 'velocity', and 'variety' of data in business was giving rise to necessary changes in data management approaches. Since then, this...
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The Wideband Low Noise Tile - A detection of the HI-line
© ASTRON In our efforts to improve aperture array sensitivity, we struggle with RFI to reduce its effects as much as possible. Focusing on that task, we sometimes tend to forget what has already been...
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You gotta love you job!
© Pieter Benthem Being asked to join the ASTRON work-force is quite flattering. Being asked to shine in a professional photo shoot, surrounded by all the good that ASTRON has to offer, takes it to the...
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Visit of the Winner of the National Science contest junior 2014
© ASTRON Friday April 10, Femke Akkermans was our guest here in Dwingeloo at ASTRON. Femke has won the National Science contest junior in 2014, and as first prize she was offered a weekend in Drenthe...
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House Preservation
© Hans van Someren Greve Regular visitors to the WSRT will recognize this house, located outside the entrance of the observatory grounds. It used to be the house of the Kommandant of the former Camp...
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The restarted radio galaxy 4C 35.06 as seen by LOFAR
© Astron One of the goals of low-frequency radio observations (and, therefore, of LOFAR) was to unveil low surface brightness, relic radio emission from old electrons. The relevance of this is that it...
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The restarted radio galaxy 4C 35.06 as seen by LOFAR
© Astron One of the goals of low-frequency radio observations (and, therefore, of LOFAR) was to unveil low surface brightness, relic radio emission from old electrons. The relevance of this is that it...
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Today's colloquium: Black Holes in Globular Clusters
© NASA/CXC/Michigan State/A.Steiner et al I will review the searches for black holes (BHs, both stellar and intermediate-mass) in globular clusters. Searches for intermediate-mass BHs in globular...
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Dutch-RSA Radio Continuum Science Workshop in Cape Town
© ASTRON In the last week of March, a meeting was organized in Cape Town to bring together the Dutch and South African communities working on radio continuum and calibration issues connected with that....
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Dutch-RSA Radio Continuum Science Workshop in Cape Town
© ASTRON In the last week of March, a meeting was organized in Cape Town to bring together the Dutch and South African communities working on radio continuum and calibration issues connected with that....
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2nd MIDPREP workshop at MAAD2015 in Aveiro
© NL SKA Office Extensive harmonizing and optimization discussions led to an excellent event at the second MIDPREP workshop, in conjunction with two SKA consortia meetings. The event, held in Aveiro,...
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Beating the Drum (literally!)
© (c) MCV, J. Morawietz On April 11th, the ASTRON/JIVE PV organized a percussion workshop in led by Michiel Gerringa of "Muziekcentrum Westerveld" in Dieverbrug. Such a percussion workshop is a nice...
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Quiet Satisfaction for the Old Gang
© Arnold van ArdenneOld soldiers never die, They just fade awayIt might seem from this picture that the fading has begun, but that is of course just a trick of the light(*). Assembled here, around a...
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Nepal Earthquake also hits Astronomy Group in Kathmandu
© Binil Aryal As you are undoubtably aware, on April 25 Nepal was struck by a strong earthquake which killed more than 8000 people and which destroyed thousands of houses across most of the country,...
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