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Announcing WimSym77: 6/7 July 2017
© WNB On thursday/friday 6/7 July 2017, ASTRON and the astronomy department of Groningen University will organise WimSym77, a 2-day symposium to honour the many contributions of Wim Brouw to radio...
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PV: Popular Scientific Lectures in Dutch attract wide Interest
© G. van Diepen, J. Morawietz (not to be spread via Social Media!) Tuesday evening April 4th the PV organised an evening with two lectures for non-technical people. Andre Gunst talked about "How do...
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Glass plate negatives of the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope
© Unkown Approximately one month ago CAMRAS received an e-mail from a woman charged with the conclusion of an inheritance. She found glass plate negatives in the house of a deceased lady. The box with...
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RFoF In-house production tool
© Lesley Goudbeek, Jan Idserda, Sjouke Kuindersma, Paula Fusiara At ASTRON we develop and create very specific and specialized products to make astronomy happen. At the R&D photonics group we...
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Today's Colloquium: X-raying the clumpy winds of giant stars
© Victoria Grinberg We are made of stardust or, at least in significant parts, of material processed in stars. Hot, massive giant stars can drive the chemical evolution of galaxies and trigger and...
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A glimpse of Ghana's future in radio astronomy
© JIVE In April/May this year a two-week radio astronomy training school was held at the Ghana Radio Astronomical Observatory (GRAO) in Kuntunse, Ghana. The Kuntunse radio telescope is a 32m...
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BALTICS LOFAR training
© Astron In April, two Latvian VIRAC engineers Marcis Bleiders and Marcis Donerblicks started with a four-week LOFAR training. After a general introduction we went to Amsterdam for a two-day ILT...
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Supernova 2017eaw in NGC 6946
© astropix.nl On May 14, 2017 a supernova was detected in NGC 6946, also dubbed "The Fireworks Galaxy", by P. Wiggins from Utah. This was the 10th supernova that was detected in this galaxy since the...
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WEAVE slit head interface plate
© Photographs by Rik ter Horst Words are not enough, to describe this beautiful piece of milling art. What we see here is the mechanical interface on which one of the four fibre-populated slit-heads...
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WEAVE slit head interface plate
© Photographs by Rik ter Horst Words are not enough, to describe this beautiful piece of milling art. What we see here is the mechanical interface on which one of the four fibre-populated slit-heads...
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Purple Stork
© Dan Stinebring No words could improve on this evocative image, dripping with metaphores.
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EC FP7 Biostirling for SKA project
© ASTRON Since around 2013, a novel renewable energy concept has been explored by 14 institutes and companies, supported by EC's FP7. Dubbed Biostirling for SKA (or B4S in short) it aims at showing...
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A successful last survey of the 'old' Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
© Filippo Maccagni, Raffaella Morganti, Tom Oosterloo Absorption line studies are an efficient way to trace the content of neutral hydrogen (HI) in radio sources and the interplay between the nuclear...
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Dr Oleg Strangelove hits town
© NN Your editor has been waiting for an opportunity to run this image. Oleg Smirnov will be in Dwingeloo for the rest of the week. If we are lucky he might even give one of his inspiring talks(*). In...
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Today's Colloquium: A white dwarf pulsar
© Thomas Marsh Last year a remarkable fast-spinning white dwarf was found that might be a white dwarf analogue of (neutron star) pulsars. The white dwarf which spins with a period of 2 minutes is...
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Local interest in our new Director
© Meppeler Courant Given the special place of ASTRON (and JIVE, and NOVA, and DOME) in the hearts of the local people, it is not surprising that a new Director is important news. Especially the fact...
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Dome symposium, paths towards exascale in radio astronomy
© ASTRON After five years of hard work at the ASTRON & IBM Centre for Exascale Technology, the Dome team presented their latest results at the Dome Symposium on May 18-19. These efforts aim at...
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Lunar images
© Rik ter Horst Lovely, those quiet nights in the spring. Not only for a drink or a small campfire but also for some observing under rather favourable conditions. The set of images presented here were...
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Anne Koster retires
© Nico Ebbendorf and more After 43 years, our colleague Anne Koster will leave ASTRON and start a well-deserved retirement. Although Anne is not broadly known outside ASTRON, his work has involved...
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Today's Colloquium: MultiView: High Precision Astrometry at Low Frequencies
© Gabor Orosz Traditionally, VLBI astrometry is achieved by phase referencing observations using a close-by calibrator, where the errors are dominated by the target-calibrator separation. However, at...
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