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Highschool students observe the Crab pulsar in Dwingeloo
© - On 20 October, a group of high school students from around the country visited ASTRON and CAMRAS to do their own observations with the Dwingeloo telescope. Independently, these students had...
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How to serve a dozen dishes
© ASTRON ALTA, The Apertif Long Term Archive system, has reached an important milestone. On 24 October, the hardware for the online storage system hosted in Dwingeloo was 'racked and stacked' in the...
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60 Second Adventures in Collaborative Science
© Open University and Standard YouTube Licence ASTERICS and The Open University have created a short series of videos about collaborative science. The animations can be found on the OpenLearn channel...
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Combining X-ray and HI
© Copyright: Radio spectrum of B2 0035+22 and NH-NHI plot: Ostorero et al. 2017 (ApJ, 839, 34; http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8ef6; https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08404); X-ray...
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Today's Colloquium: BeSSeL, masers, a forest of lines and a dash of...
© Katharina Immer The life and death of high-mass stars are crucial for the evolution of galaxies, influencing their energy budgets via strong winds, jets, outflows and supernova explosions and...
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Today's Colloquium: Galaxy clusters in the LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey
© LOFAR Surveys Key Science Project The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a deep 120-168 MHz imaging survey that will eventually cover the entire Northern sky. Each of the 3170 pointings will be...
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Giant radio jets as seen by LOFAR
© ASTRON/Heesen LOFAR was from the beginning expected to provide beautiful images of the diffuse and faint radio emission in radio galaxies. And indeed, it has kept this promise! In the image above,...
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AENEAS all-hands meeting in Granada
© AENEAS / IAA In October, the AENEAS (Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA) project had the first all-hands meeting in Granada, Spain. The project runs for three...
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Combining X-ray and HI
© Copyright: Radio spectrum of B2 0035+22 and NH-NHI plot: Ostorero et al. 2017 (ApJ, 839, 34; http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8ef6; https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08404); X-ray...
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Today's Colloquium: Binary neutron stars and gravitational waves: The dawn of...
© NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet Since 2015, Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have been detecting gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers. Here I focus on the recent...
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Improving pipeline description methods
© Grange, Shulevski, Molenaar As part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) pilot project, the LOFAR prefactor pipeline has been reimplemented in the Common Workflow Language (CWL). This is a...
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First Light!
© astropix.nl After nearly a year of building and testing, first light was finally achieved at my new remote observatory. An animation of the assembly can be seen in an earlier DailyImage:...
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AENEAS all-hands meeting in Granada
© AENEAS / IAA In October, the AENEAS (Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA) project had the first all-hands meeting in Granada, Spain. The project runs for three...
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First science image from the CASA VLBI tools
© Cristiana Spingola On November 22-23 JIVE hosted a scaled down version of the first successful CASA VLBI workshop held in October. This smaller version catered to Dutch and local astronomers, taught...
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An Influential Friend
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) It is of course a pity when a valuable colleague leaves ASTRON for greener pastures. But the upside is that we gain an influential friend somewhere else in our...
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Today's Colloquium: WEAVE: The next-generation spectroscopic survey facility...
© Nik Szymanek and Ian King WEAVE is the next-generation wide-field survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). WEAVE will provide the instrument required for full scientific exploitation...
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Testing water blocks for the SKA
© Astron The heart of the SKA LOW correlator, in development at CSIRO and ASTRON, is the Gemini LRU. To find the best cooling solution for the Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) on Gemini, the...
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One of the Apertif heroes
© ASTRON Imagine: you have been on a business trip to Australia and a few days after your return to the Netherlands, you are still suffering from a jetlag. In that case you decide to get up early and...
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