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Today's Colloquium: Cosmic tsunamis and tornadoes
© A. Stroe Red weather alert: dangerous cosmic weather forecast, in light of galaxy cluster mergers! Clusters grow through mergers with other clusters, events which give rise to the largest cosmic...
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Resolved magnetic structures in the disk-halo interface of NGC 628
© Mulcahy et al. 2017 Spiral galaxies host large-scale magnetic fields that evolve over millions of years via turbulence in the Interstellar Medium and the rotation of the galaxy itself. These...
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NWO Special Interest Group on Software Engineering visits ASTRON
© ASTRON Since 2010 software engineers from various NWO institutes and the like get together every year to share experiences and to see something of their sister institutes. In 2010 we visited Amolf,...
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LOFAR observations of decameter carbon radio recombination lines towards...
© P. Salas LOFAR is able to observe at high spatial, time and spectral resolution. The high spectral resolution allows us to detect and map low frequency radio recombination lines at unprecedented...
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First ARTS busy week
© R.H. van den Brink In week 6 of 2017, the team interested in the time-domain capabilities for APERTIF, organized their first Busy Week. A group of about 20 people participated from both ASTRON and...
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Measuring RF shielding cans of the MFAA LNA
© ASTRON On the daily image of december 14th 2016 two different RF shielding cans for the MFAA LNA were shown. To see if there is a difference between the shielding properties of these shielding cans a...
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Polygoonjournaal april 1956
© Polygoon bioscoopjournaal, Beeld en GeluidClick here for the Polygoon Bioscoopjournaal of the week of 17 april 1956, which covers the opening of the Dwingeloo Telesope. People filmed include Queen...
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Cleanroom prepared for WEAVE Spectrometer
© NOVA Optical IR Instrumentation Group The cleanroom at ASTRON is upgraded with a crane and now equipped for assembly of the WEAVE spectrograph. The sub-units of the Spectrograph are that large and...
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NGC 6951
© Albert van Duin NGC 6952, in the constellation of Cepheus, was discovered in 1877 by Jerome Coggia. Earlier, Lewis Swift had independently found a nebula nearby in 1885 that was named NGC 6951....
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Operations BoF at the ADASS
© YG / ADASS XXVI LOC During the last Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference, we organised a Birds of a Feather* session. The goal of this session was to bring together...
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The Making of...
© ASTRON Regional broadcast station RTV Drenthe recently requested for ASTRON's cooperation in a program they were preparing in the context of their 'Week of Technique' in February. Of course, they...
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Famous in the Donald Duck
© Sanoma media These images appeared in the Donald Duck special issue on Drenthe, issue 21, 2012.
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De Inrichting van de Hemel
© P.C. van der Kruit / Amsterdam University Press Last year former chair of the ASTRON-board and former director of the Kapteyn Institute Piet van der Kruit published a biography of Jacobus Kapteyn....
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Simultaneous radio/X-ray detection of the first Be/BH binary MWC 656
© Marc Ribo (UB) & Benito Marcote (JIVE) MWC 656 is the first known binary system composed of a Be star and a black hole (BH). Be/BH binaries are important in the context of binary system evolution...
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Ajinkya Patil defends his thesis on the LOFAR EoR project
© Ajinkya Patil On the 22d of Nov 2016 Ajinkya Patil defended his thesis with the title: LOFAR Epoch of Reionization: Statistical methods and First Results. Profs Saleem Zaroubi and Ger de Bruyn acted...
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Today's Colloquium: The High-resolution View of Radio Jets in the Southern Sky
© Robert Schulz, Cornelia Mueller Radio-loud active galactic nuclei belong to the most powerful and persistent sources in the Universe. They exhibit highly relativistic jets, which emit light across...
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JUMPING JIVE kicks off
© JIVE February 21st marked the official start of the JUMPING JIVE project with a kick-off meeting in Leiden – of which an impression is shown above. The JUMPING JIVE project was awarded nearly 3...
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Training Ondernemingsraad
© OR We hebben een flink aantal nieuwe mensen in de Ondernemingsraad (OR). In dat kader zijn we een dag op cursus geweest om beter bekend te raken met de Wet op de OndernemingsRaden (WOR). Hierdoor...
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Black Hole X-ray Binary XTE J1908+094 shows spectacular outburst
© Anthony Rushton et al. Black hole X-ray binaries undergo occasional outbursts caused by changing inner ac- cretion flows. These outbursts are often accompanied by collimated ejecta at near...
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EPED assignment for Hanzehogeschool
© Nico Ebbendorf Traditionally, ASTRON has an excellent relationship with the Hanzehogeschool, a University of Applied science in Groningen. One example of the collaboration is the Electronic Product...
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