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Summer Student Garden Party - 2013
© ASTRON A few weeks ago, the traditional ASTRON-JIVE Summer Student Garden Party was held - an opportunity for the students to relax with their supervisors and the many others that have supported the...
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2013 Mountainbike afternoon
© MC/EK/AB/JvL On the lovely afternoon of Tuesday July 2, a somewhat rowdy but prepared-looking group of 32 ASTRON/JIVErs got together for the 2013 mountainbike outing. After fitting the rental bikes,...
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F�ilte! - the I-LOFAR event at Space EXPO
© ASTRON Earlier this month, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) was home to the European Space Expo - a giant transportable dome in which visitors can learn all about the European space programme and engage...
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SKA outreach: A Global Enterprise
© SKA From 29-31 May, five outreach officers convened at the SKA Organisations head office at Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK for a 3-day meeting about the communication strategy for the Square...
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Educational visit: students from the Electrical Engineering faculty of the...
© ODIN On June the 7th, a group of students from the electrical engineering faculty of the Technical University of Eindhoven visited the Westerbork telescopes and ASTRON. The group was welcomed and...
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Is GBT1355+5439 a dark galaxy?
© Astron A key feature of galaxy formation is that progressively smaller galaxies find it harder and harder to convert their gas into stars. This leads to the question whether there is a minimum galaxy...
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AARTFAAC Hardware Tests
© ASTRON Recently, the AARTFAAC hardware required in the LOFAR superterp stations has been produced: 24 URI (UniBoard Ring Interface) boards(*), 12 UniBoards (2 per station) and 12 XGBs (10 Gigabit...
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We want you as the new recruit!
© ASTRON & SKA The SKA Organisation is expanding rapidly, in order to gear up for the pre-construction phase. A wide variety of new positions are currently being advertised with a deadline of 19...
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Snapshot Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Sun with LOFAR
© Diana Morosan, Trinity College Dublin With the arrival of summer here in the Netherlands, and weather which is providing us with more than the annual requirement of five continuous hours of sunshine,...
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Who knows what LOFAR is?
© ASTRON Who indeed? The heart of the International LOFAR Telescope is located near the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, in Drenthe, The Netherlands. But strangely enough, if you ask an inhabitant or...
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Evidence for jet-driven outflows of cold gas: the case of 3C293
© ASTRON Over the past decade it has become clear that the growth and evolution of galaxies is strongly tied to that of the central supermassive black hole. This is generally attributed to feedback...
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Studying the ASTRON/SRZM archive
© DB Last month I spent a few days in a vault-like room near the JIVE computers. I leafed through thousands of documents, mostly the records of meetings that happened decades ago. Sound dull? Most of...
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HI in HO: a myth debunked
© Astron/HST Heritage One of the gems of the sky is Hoag's Object (HO). Discovered by Art Hoag in 1950 as a very unusual galaxy, its full beauty, as a red galaxy surrounded by a peculiar very blue...
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Veni grant awarded to astronomer Vibor Jelic'
© astron Astronomer Vibor Jelic' (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen (RuG)/ASTRON), has been awarded a Veni grant of 250 000 EUR by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific...
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The LOFAR Expedition has kicked off!
© ASTRON On Thursday 25 July late at night, the first try-out of the theater production 'The LOFAR Expedition' kicked off. From 25 July to 25 August, the theater group 'the PeerGroup' plays 'the LOFAR...
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HALOGAS - NGC 5023: galactic tomography
© Image credits: Gyula I. G. Jozsa, Peter Kamphuis, Rich Rand, George Heald and the HALOGAS consortium.In the HALOGAS project we have observed 22 spiral galaxies with the WSRT, each galaxy for 120...
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A spider's web in the early morning dew with the Dwingeloo telescope in the...
© Hiddo Hanenburg As the spider's web is deployed to catch the flies in the heather, the Dwingeloo telescope is poised to capture the stars in the sky.
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Field of Dreams (II)
© ASTRON On Thursday (weather permitting) the second Softball match will be held at de Boerken hotel in Lhee. This is another activity organised by Bob Campbell for the summer students, other summer...
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Pictures LOFAR Expeditie
© H.J. Stiepel On Saturday 3th of August a group of ASTRON colleagues visited a performance of "De LOFAR expeditie". They were very positive about it. Comedian Vincent Bijlo explains (radio) astronomy...
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High Fidelity pays off!
© Parisa Noorishad Last month, Parisa Noorishad successfully defended her thesis at Groningen University proudly watched by promotores Prof. Thijs van der Hulst and Prof. Arnold van Ardenne. Called...
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