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WinCC OA, The Navigator
© Henk Mulder, Arthur Coolen You may have heard somebody mention WinCC OA (or the Navigator) in the corridors, meeting rooms and plenaries a few times now. Or had a quick glance at it in the...
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Today's Colloquium: Low-frequency polarimetry on the path to the SKA: the...
© Colloquium(NB: Note the unusual day!)Investigating the origin of cosmic magnetic fields is a key science driver behind the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). With the typical sensitivity predicted for...
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Kick-off PV activities 2018
© ASTRON/JIVE PV This year, the ASTRON/JIVE PV started out strong with a meeting attended by more than forty members. For comparison, last year's headcount was a meager fourteen - we attribute the...
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Today's colloquium: Make your code famous! (Or at least discoverable)
© Alice Allen Source codes are increasingly important for the advancement of science in general and astrophysics in particular. Journal articles meant to detail the general logic behind new results and...
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A LOFAR map of W50 and SS433
© Jess Broderick et al. W50 (sometimes referred to as the Manatee Nebula) is a Galactic supernova remnant, approximately 20,000 years old, and located 18,000 light years away. At the centre of W50 is...
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R&D department outing 2018
© ASTRON On Thursday 5 April, the R&D department traveled North to visit the beautiful city of Sneek. The first part of the afternoon was spent at Lankhorst Engineered Products.After coffee and an...
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"What can VLBI do for your Research?
© JIVE It was a question that the JIVE team took to the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science 2018 from 2nd - 6th April in Liverpool, UK. The answer was an open one, with responses delivered by...
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AENEAS all-hands meeting in Nice, France
© AENEAS-project On 26-28 March 2018, the AENEAS (Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA) project had its second all-hands meeting. This time we visited the...
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Today's colloquium: The role of gas flows in regulating galaxy evolution
© Saintonge et al. 2017, ApJS, 233, 22 Observations of molecular gas in distant galaxies are experiencing a coming-of-age, transitioning from a "discovery" to a "survey" mode. New and upgraded...
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JIVE confirms first interferometric fringes with the Colombo radio telescope...
© JIVE The Colombo radio telescope in Azores (Portugal) participated, for the first time, in a geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) experiment on 21st February 2018, together with the 40m...
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Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2018
© JIVE/ASTRON "Astronomical communication is a good way to make friends and find peace in the world" - Dr. Kazanuri Shibata, President of the Astronomical Society of Japan. With this uplifting...
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The story of just another day at the office
© ASTRON Once upon time, there was a manager in a highly innovative company with the idea to create a large banner with a picture of the superterp in Exloo.'Think big', he probably thought. He...
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Kick-off PV activities 2018
© ASTRON/JIVE PV This year, the ASTRON/JIVE PV started out strong with a meeting attended by more than forty members. For comparison, last year's headcount was a meager fourteen - we attribute the...
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Colloquium - Testing General Relativity Using a Pulsar in a Triple System
© Bill Saxton (NRAO) The millisecond pulsar PSR J0337+1715 is in a 1.6-day orbit with an inner white dwarf companion, and the pair is in a 327-day orbit with an outer white dwarf companion. This...
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Girlsday 2018
© ASTRON On April 12, 2018, 32 girls visited ASTRON for the annual Girlsday. From soldering and coding, to building galaxies with 3D pens, and searching for pulsars with the Dwingeloo Telescope: the...
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A workshop on energetics and life cycle of radio galaxies
© ASTRON From Monday 26 through Wednesday 28 of March, we had an extremely successful and fruitful workshop at ASTRON to discuss the recent progress in the exciting field of radio galaxies. Such radio...
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The Artefact
© ASTRON Every Tuesday at 14:00 the ARTS weekly meeting takes place in the Fish Bowl (Minnaert) room. We try to use most of the allotted hour brain storming our way out of problems we encounter along...
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ASTRON Hackathon
© Cees Bassa We are entering a new era of astronomy with the massive radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), coming online in next five years. The SKA will generate around 160 TB (10^12...
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8 eyes of hairy inspiration
© PF When you think that you are quietly sitting in your office with the two of you, better think twice... there's always extra 4 pairs of eyes and extra thousand(s) of pairs of ears somewhere in the...
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Thailand is building a radio telescope!
© Baan The National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) is building a new radio telescope, an 'updated' version of the 40-m Yebes telescope (IGN). The telescope will be located within...
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