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The WSRT - boldy going where no radio telescope has gone before...
© ASTRON Voyager 1 has travelled faster and further than any other spacecraft, currently cruising at 17 km/sec in the direction of the constellation of Ophiuchus. Expected to leave the Solar System any...
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LEAPing with 5 Telescopes
© LEAP collaboration LEAPing with 5 Telescopes On 27 July 2013, the Sardinia Radio Telescope joined in for its very first LEAP observation. It also meant the first LEAP observation in which all 5...
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ERC Advanced Grant for Ger de Bruyn
© ASTRON Prof. dr. A.G. (Ger) de Bruyn (ASTRON, Dwingeloo & Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen) has received an Advanced Grant of 3.35 million Euro from the European Research Council (ERC)....
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Searching for maximum flux density.
© Michel Arts Over the last month, a new time registration system has been installed at ASTRON. As with many things one has to become familiar with it. Instead of sliding a metal key through a slit,...
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Holland Doc: Radio-quiet Zone
© Roy Smits & Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Why are ASTRON and the WSRT located in a radio-quiet zone? Arie Visser from Holland Doc, a platform for documentaries on the Dutch public network,...
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SKA Board meets (July 2013)
© ASTRON & SKA The SKA Board recently met at the SKA Organisation's HQ at Jodrell Bank. The image above shows the Directors of the SKA Organisation and senior SKA Office staff. The new SKA Science...
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Pulsar beacon shines light on black hole diet
© Ralph Eatough / MPIfR How does the supermassive black hole candidate at the centre of the Milky Way like its lunch? Recent observations of a newly-discovered radio pulsar suggest that Sgr A* (the...
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Young children obtain proof that the Earth is round !
© Astro-Jeunes This year, ASTRON was a partner of the XXIII Fleurance astronomy festival in Gers (France), which also includes the VIII young Fleurance astronomy festival, Astro-Jeunes. Thanks to the...
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First optical test on Matisse hardware
© NOVA-ASTRON NOVA-ASTRON is currently building the Cold Optical Bench for MATISSE, the mid-infrared interferometric spectrograph and imager for ESO's VLT interferometer (VLTI, Paranal, Chile). This...
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Shelling a galaxy
© HALOGAS collaboration The picture shows an optical image of the galaxy NGC 4414. Recently this galaxy was observed with the Westerbork telescope (as part of the HALOGAS survey) to obtain the...
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Midsummer Caption Competition
© Arno Schoenmakers, Jurjen Sluman, the Muppets This quaint little balcony is a flourish of our lovely new building. While it is not particularly well-placed for the things one usually associates with...
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Vivaldi at SKA Karoo site
© Pieter Benthem The picture above shows that Mid Frequency Aperture Array technology has reached the SKA Karoo site, in South Africa. During a recent visit, an ASTRON crew tested ground anchors and...
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The Einstein @ Home discovery of pulsar J2007+2722
© ApJ Einstein@Home aggregates the computer power of hundreds of thousands of volunteers from 193 countries, to search for new neutron stars using data from electromagnetic and gravitational-wave...
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Wadlopen 2013
© Summer students 2013 / Mike Garrett / Carmen Toribio The annual ASTRON / JIVE summer student Wadlopen extravaganza! This time the ASTRON director himself joined the intrepid radio astronomers unable...
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Hunting for radio-loud gravitational lenses
© Minju Lee, John McKean, Adam Deller, Javier Molden A new pilot project called "'Hunting for radio-loud gravitational lenses' was the one of the summer student projects this year, and as you would...
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The 6.7-GHz methanol maser in the high mass star forming region G213.70-12.6
© Gabriele Surcis, Maria Grazia Blasi The picture shows the results obtained during my summer project at the JIVE Institute, that is the study of the 6.7-GHz methanol maser in the high-mass...
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LOFAR Stone Art
© bennema The core of the (much larger) LOFAR radio telescope is located on the slopes of the Hondsrug, a unique geological landscape that will (hopefully) be acknowledged by the UNESCO as an official...
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The end of Komkommer Time
© MCCEditor's note: This AJDI was prepared in the expectation that very few pictures would be submitted over the summer. To our surprise and delight, it was not needed (so far). However, since it seems...
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AstroFest 2013
© Astron One of the traditions at Astron/JIVE is the yearly AstroFest. At this fest, we celebrate all the wonderful astronomy being done in Dwingeloo. This year's AstroFest was held in the Drents...
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Dedication of UK LOFAR station as The Rawlings Array
© ASTRON A few weeks ago, the UK LOFAR station at Chilbolton was renamed "The Rawlings Array" in honour of the late Prof. Steve Rawlings. Steve played an important role in securing the funding for the...
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