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The launching point of a protostellar outflow resolved
© (1) Per Bjerkeli and co-authors, as well as ESASky (European Space Astronomy Centre; ESAC, Madrid, Spain). (2) Per Bjerkeli and co-authors. Molecular outflows are signposts of the star formation...
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Another 12,5-year anniversary at the R&D department of ASTRON
© ASTRON This time it's Ronald Nijboer his 12,5-year anniversary. On 1 May, 2004 Ronald started his career at the Research & Development department of ASTRON with working on LOFAR, in the MeqTrees...
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The age, dynamics, and energetics of FR II radio galaxies
© Jeremy Harwood Figure: Top: 368 MHz radio images of the FR II radio galaxies 3C452 (left) and 3C223 (right) overlaid on optical backgrounds. Bottom: The spectral age of each source as a function of...
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7.33 years At ASTRON
© ASTRON Life in ASTRON was diverse, interesting, and never boring. I joined ASTRON in 2009, the period when LOFAR was being rolled out. After about a year, on June 10, 2016, LOFAR was inaugurated by...
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Christmas Market
© ASTRON / Hiddo Hanenburg Today at 15:00, we have our very own Christmas Market. This year we have a different approach to the annual Christmas High Tea. This time we chose for a Christmas Market with...
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ASTRON Season's Greetings
© ASTRON On behalf of our Board, Management Team and all of our staff, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a great 2017!
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Happy holidays from JIVE
© JIVE Best wishes from JIVE! This year's image highlights the special science one can do with the European VLBI Network and JIVE. With more to come in 2017! From all of us at JIVE, we wish you all...
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The schaatsen of Jan Oort
© Leidraad Prof Oort was a giant of 20th century astronomy, and the founding father of Dutch radio astronomy (he also dabbled in comets). But whenever the canals froze over, he grabbed his schaatsen...
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Speeding things up with 3D printing
© R.H. van den Brink The mechanical workshop of ASTRON is known for quick and effective solutions. Sometimes we encounter a small issue which needs a simple solution in order not to delay the process...
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BALTICS DSP course week in Latvia
© ASTRONBALTICS is an educational program funded by the European Unio. It is meant to share our expertise with the staff of Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC) in Latvia, so that...
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Dwingeloo Radio Telescope on popular science TV-show Galileo
© Erik Tiddens (CAMRAS) On August 2nd the crew of the popular science TV-show Galileo visited the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope. Presenter Shelly Sterk, a camera man and a sound technician came to...
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Filming @ ASTRON for Biostirling for SKA
© B4S@ASTRON Recently, a film crew from Spain came over to ASTRON as partner in the FP7 project BioStirling for SKA (B4S). The emphasis in this project is to see if and how a solar concentrator dish...
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Whisper Dish stolen (and returned)
© Tammo Jan Dijkema, RTV Drenthe, Tied Zat In the last week of 2016, one of the whisper dishes disappeared from its spot along the Milky way path. In its place we found a tiny TV satellite dish. Paths...
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Het Logboek -> The Journal
© Curtin University In 2014 ASTRON commissioned Het logboek, a youth novel by Anke den Duyn. Het Logboek intertwines adventures around the Dwingeloo telescope with Dutch radio astronomy history,...
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ASTRON RFoF purchased by the MWA
© ASTRON ASTRON RFoF purchased by the MWA With great pleasure, we report on the purchase of 256 ASTRON Radio Frequency of Fibre (RFoF) modules by ICRAR/Curtin, towards the MWA telescope. The Murchison...
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Who was Who in postwar Dutch astronomy
© RUG In late August Huug van Woerden celebrated his 90th birthday. The Kapteyn Institute organized a one-day symposium to mark this event. The picture shows the more than 100 people that attended, and...
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Presentations Project Management
© ASTRON Presentations Project management Just before the Christmas holidays for�some people of the R&D department it wasn't all about astronomy, antennas, phased arrays, front and back ends, etc....
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OLFAR PhD defence Steven Engelen
© Steven Engelen On Thursday November 3 at the TUDelft, Steven Engelen successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title "Swarm Satellites, design, characteristics and applications". In his thesis...
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DIY Aperture Arrays
© Centre for Space Research, Faculty of Natural Sciences, North-West University, South Africa Armed with nothing more than a Gerber-file, a couple of low-noise amplifiers and a pair of running shoes,...
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