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50 years of VLBI!!
© JIVE; the image is licensed by Darren Kirby, under CC. by-SA 2.0. This month the astronomy community is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first successful VLBI (Very Long Baseline...
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Girlsday 2017
© Harm-Jan Stiepel / ASTRON It's that time of year again: Girlsday. Like in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, a group of 32 girls from four highschools in the region invaded the...
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VLBI: when people care about picoseconds, but can't remember the date
© JIVE According to the plaque in the image above, today marks the 50th anniversary of the first successful VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) experiment. This was conducted in Canada on 17th...
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Welcome to our new Director
© ASTRON Today at 10:30, Carole Jackson, the new ASTRON Director, will be officially welcomed, and presented to all personnel of the four sister institutes in the Dwingeloo building: ASTRON, JIVE, NOVA...
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This year's Cascade Run participants (well, most of them)
© ASTRON Three ASTRON teams participated in the 11th edition of the Hoogeveen Cascaderun, om April 9th 2017. Two teams of sporty enthusiasts did the 5 English mile distance, while one team of brave...
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Today's Colloquium: Magnetic fields in the multi-phase interstellar medium
© Left: Fletcher & Beck/Hubble Heritage Team/Sterne & Weltraum, Right: Evirgen et al. 2017, MNRAS, 464, L105 Left: yellow lines show the observed radio polarisation angles of the galaxy M51,...
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I-LOFAR skid frames halfway through production
© ASTRON Mechanical Group It is cool to work at ASTRON as a mechanical engineer, because the assignments are so diverse. I am having fun solving engineering puzzles. They range from making fine...
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Measuring UniBoard2
© ASTRON One of the major challenges in developing processing platforms for the SKA is cooling the boards. In the past boards are cooled with air, like the processing boards in LOFAR for example....
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Oort Lecture to be given by Imke de Pater
© Leiden This year's Oort Lecture is to be given in Leiden on May 11th by our very own Imke de Pater. The lecture will be given in English, and is free of charge, but those interested are assumed to be...
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Wurzburg radar dishes
© NN A new museum is being founded in the island of Terschelling, in the North of The Netherlands. Hundreds of bunkers have been built there during WW II by the Nazi occupiers, as part of the Atlantic...
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The King's 50th birthday
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) On April 27th 2017, our gracious King Willem Alexander turns 50. Since the four sister institutes in Dwingeloo (ASTRON, JIVE, NOVA and DOME) are no strangers to...
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Today's Colloquium: The first Be/BH binary system in context: discovery,...
© Marc Rib� In this talk I will explain the serendipitous discovery of the first known Be/black hole (BH) binary system, namely MWC 656, found after a possible gamma-ray flare detected by the AGILE...
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LOFAR container sailing to Ireland
© Fotos: ASTRON / RH The “heart” of every international LOFAR station is perfectly guarded in a 20 foot container, preventing Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) coming out, or in. Mounted in several...
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NGC 5395 and NGC 5394 - the Heron Galaxy
© astropix.nl NGC 5395 and 5394 are two interacting galaxies in the constellation of Canes Venatici, discovered in 1787 by William Herschel. The bigger galaxy is NGC 5395, and the smaller one is called...
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Testing Gemini POC
© ASTRON / CSIRO The image shows the testing of the Gemini POC (Proof Of Concept). The first achievement was a flashing LED. Although a simple flashing LED looks simple, a lot of engineering is...
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Making custom designs is FUN :)
© ASTRON Mechanical Group From time to time mechanical engineers at ASTRON are faced with unusual requests. Apart from designing functional parts for radio telescopes, we also have fun addressing and...
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Making custom designs is FUN :)
© ASTRON Mechanical Group From time to time mechanical engineers at ASTRON are faced with unusual requests. Apart from designing functional parts for radio telescopes, we also have fun addressing and...
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Towards the origin of the radio emission in AR Sco, the first radio-pulsing...
© Benito Marcote The binary system AR Sco contains an M star and the only known radio-pulsing white dwarf. The system shows emission from radio to X-rays, likely dominated by synchrotron radiation. The...
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More Apertif
© Astron A few months ago, it was even in the national press that the first, real image had been made with Apertif (see the AJPOD of 31-Jan-2017). Work on Apertif has been progressing steadily since...
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Today's Colloquium: The HI4PI Survey
© Benjamin Winkel & HI4PI collaboration The image shows the column density of neutral atomic hydrogen in our galaxy, the Milky Way. It is one result of a new 21-cm spectroscopic survey of the full...
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