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Treasures of the Wiskunde Boek
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) For the ridiculously low price of Eu 14,95 you can buy Het Wiskune Boek (The Mathematics Book(**)). Each of its more than 500 pages explains an important brick of...
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RFoF Environmental test
© Lesley Goudbeek Over the years ASTRON developed and produced many instruments, tools and components. Many of these start their life on a lab-bench at ASTRON. Life on a lab-bench is relaxed (minus...
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Moonset from La Palma
© Cees Bassa On occasion, radio astronomers observe with, and get to go to, telescopes operating at other wavelengths. When those wavelengths are optical, this usually means remote or exotic mountain...
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Understanding the nature of drifting subpulses in pulsars.
© ASTRON We performed detailed analysis of archival data of PSR J0815+0939 which revealed that the second component is the only one which exhibits drift in the opposite direction. We proposed a model...
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Photo impression labs session MSc students RuG at NOVA-ASTRON
© Willem Jellema On Thu 29 Sep 2017, 15 students following the course Basic Detection Techniques (BDT) visited the Optical & IR group at NOVA-ASTRON for a labs session. In 4 groups the students...
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The Square Kilometre Array and the origins of life
© Matthijs van der Wiel The symposium Fundamentals of Life in the Universe was held on August 31st and September 1st. Taking place at the Energy Academy building on the Groningen University campus (see...
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Kick-off in the new APERTIF room
© Gert Kruithof Many things already have been done for APERTIF and many things still are on the to-do-list... All the effort and hard work of the several groups within ASTRON for these project is...
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Hajee's career move
© ASTRON Today we say goodbye to our colleague Hajee (Harm-Jan) Pepping. Hajee has worked at Astron for the past six years. In this period he has developed firmware for the UniBoard and for the APERTIF...
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Particle Rejuvenation In Distant Galaxy Clusters
© Francesco de Gasperin (Leiden University) A composite (false-colour) image of the galaxy cluster Abell 1033. Optical light from individual galaxies, visible as coloured spots across the image, is...
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ASTRON proud member of Innovation Cluster Drachten
© ASTRON Since September 29th, ASTRON officially joins the Innovation Cluster Drachten (ICD). ICD is an internationally active ecosystem of collaborating high-tech companies and knowledge institutes...
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Unboxing the GAME
© ASTRON, JIVE, NOVA Have you ever wondered what it takes to make discoveries in astronomy happen, but you couldn't find a short and simple answer very quickly? Or you were searching everywhere on the...
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September 13th: submission on a dead line
© SOS Team It was Wednesday, the 13th., of September. The wind was howling through the trees, because of the biggest storm this year. It was the day that astronomers from all over the world are...
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Radio telescopes zoom in gravitational wave counterpart
© LIGO-Virgo Consortium (image); ASTRON, JIVE Last year we learned about the birth of the new field of gravitational wave astronomy, when gravitational waves were first detected from merging...
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CASA VLBI workshop 2017
© JIVE There is a focused and tense energy radiating from the room. People are sat in pairs at small tables throughout, and fingers are tapping at speed with eyes flicking from screen to screen....
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Recombination lines with Apertif
© ASTRON The motivation for building Apertif is to increase the survey speed of the WSRT and to turn it into a radio survey telescope. This is achieved by increasing the field of view by using...
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Dedication of the de Bruyn Room at the Kapteyn Institute
© ASTRON With a small and warm ceremony last Thursday, attended by family, friends and colleagues, the De Bruyn Office was dedicated at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen. As underlined by Leon...
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Food for thought...
© ASTRON It is rather sad to say but at ASTRON, and also at the R&D department, there are some people (almost) burn-out. On a regular basis in the R&D MT meetings attention has been paid to...
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When a jet hits a cloud
© Astron It is thought that every fairly massive galaxy has a super-massive black hole (SMBH) sitting in its centre. Sometimes, such a SMBH is 'active', meaning it ejects ultra-fast plasma jets, almost...
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1 + 1 > 2
© Astron Astron will soon operate two world-class telescopes, Lofar and Apertif. In other places in the world, telescopes like Lofar and Apertif are operational (or soon will be). But what is unique to...
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Dwingeloo 1 & 2 are still there!
© astron Every weekend Apertif is observing as part of the astronomical commissioning. One of the modes that are regularly tested is spectral line imaging, to see if the changes made to the system were...
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