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EDU robotics
© ASTRON R&D 'De Harmonie' in Leeuwarden was the place to be on Wednesday, February 21st, if you were a 10-11 year old boy or girl and interested in robotics and technology... Around 500 pupils of...
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Today's colloquium: Blunders and Failures
© Gary Larson (The Far Side) The radio astronomy community has developed some very impressive data reduction software over the years. The achieved dynamic range has increased by 4 orders of magnitude,...
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The LAB
© JvL Last year, the team from Universiteit van Nederland and I worked out a new idea for short, few-minute segments, in which researchers attempt to explain the essence of certain science concepts in...
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Today's colloquium: VLBI scintillometry
© Ue-Li PenNB: This is a special colloquium (by a very special guest), on an unusual day! Natural radio plasma lenses provide a new tool set for direct measurement of small scale structure of pulsar...
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Discovery of a Highly Relativistic Double Neutron Star
© JvL Recently the PALFA team, which includes ASTRON scientists Jason Hessels and Joeri van Leeuwen, discovered a new double neutron star (DNS) system, PSR J1946+2052, using Arecibo. As described in...
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Strong Gravitational Lensing
© astropix.nl One of the things I always wanted to try is imaging a real gravitational lens with my small optical telescope. Not the ones like the Double Quasar, that was quite easy and I did that some...
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AstroFest 2018
© Gemma Janssen On Tuesday March 6, the AG, RO and JIVE astronomers got together for another episode of AstroFest. AstroFest is a day-long version of the regular Wednesday AstroLunches, where our...
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Prospects of a future LOFAR station in Spain
© R. Vermeulen, N. Ebbendorf, C. Baldovin On February 27th, Rene Vermeulen, Nico Ebbendorf, and Carla Baldovin visited Yebes Observatory (1000m above sea level in Guadalajara, near Madrid, Spain). At...
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The LAB
© JvL Last year, the team from Universiteit van Nederland and I worked out a new idea for short, few-minute segments, in which researchers attempt to explain the essence of certain science concepts in...
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Life-cycle workshop 2018
© Astron From Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 March, ASTRON will host a workshop focussing on the life cycles and the energetics of radio sources. The main aims of the meeting are to discuss what we are...
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Prospects of a future LOFAR station in Spain
© R. Vermeulen, N. Ebbendorf, C. Baldovin On February 27th, Rene Vermeulen, Nico Ebbendorf, and Carla Baldovin visited Yebes Observatory (1000m above sea level in Guadalajara, near Madrid, Spain). At...
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"No exceptions"
© JvL For astronomers trying to convince their peers and the public of new results, reproducibility is very important. How can someone check your work if you do not describe how it is was derived? If...
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Colloquium - Cold gas in the center of radio-loud galaxies: New perspectives...
© Colloquium Nuclear activity in radio galaxies (AGN) may be connected with the presence and kinematical properties of the surrounding interstellar medium. In this talk, I will present two projects...
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Another RadioLife (and LOFAR) thesis!
© astron Marisa Brienza, one of the three PhD students appointed thanks to the ERC RadioLife grant to study the effects of the gas in the life of radio galaxies, has successfully defended her thesis at...
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Apertif Tracking Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
© astron Astron has been requested to do live tracking of the Tesla Roadster that was recently brought into space. Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car and was the dummy payload for the...
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Another RadioLife (and LOFAR) thesis!
© astron Marisa Brienza, one of the three PhD students appointed thanks to the ERC RadioLife grant to study the effects of the gas in the life of radio galaxies, has successfully defended her thesis at...
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ARP286 (NGC 5566 & 5560)
© astropix.nl NGC 5566 is a big galaxy (diameter 150.000 ly) in the constellation of Virgo, at a distance of 90 Mly. It is gravitationally interacting with NGC 5560, the thin distorted galaxy to its...
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Signal Processing - an intensive course, part 2
© astron BALTICS is an educational program funded by the European Union. It is meant to share our expertise with the staff of the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC) in Latvia, so...
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Mechanical Riddle
© P.Fusiara What does a blunt needle have in common with UV light, syringe, milk, food colorings, water, powder, high temperature, 2 engineers, a research instrument maker and an intern in a mechanical...
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ASTERICS All-Hands meeting
© ASTERICS On 14 & 15 March 2018, the Astronomy ESFRI and Research Infrastructure Cluster, ASTERICS, organized an event for its developers and contributors to discuss their work. To stimulate...
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