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SWENED Collaboration
© ASTRON SWENED is a network organisation in which Dutch organisations active in the field of Space Weather are united. Aim of SWENED is to exchange information and building knowledge regarding space...
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Beamforming video
© Bruno van Wayenburg Beamforming is used to develop wide-field radio cameras like Apertif, inaugurated last week in the Netherlands. This technique will also be used to "point" at objects in the sky...
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Changing sky colors during a lunar eclipse
© Cees Bassa Last July, the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century was visible from Europe. This total lunar eclipse occurred near Moonrise and hence near Sunset. As the fully eclipsed Moon...
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First e-EVN + e-MERLIN + SRT science
© JIVE The e-VLBI session of 18/19 September 2018 was an important milestone. For the very first time e-MERLIN, participating with three outstations, and the 64-m Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT, Sr),...
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NWO-Groot Grant Awarded for DUPLLO
© ASTRONDUPLLO is the Digital Upgrade for Premier LOFAR Low-band Observing, and was recently awarded a 3.45 MEur NWO-Groot grant. The festive award ceremony for DUPLLO and the other NWO-Groot projects...
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Symposium: The New Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
© ASTERICS The ASTERICS collaboration is pleased to announce the symposium: "The New Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics" to discuss recent developments in the fields of gravitational waves,...
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Astronomy at the IAC
© Phil Crosby (CSIRO) The IAC meeting is even bigger this year and a noticeable change is the focus on the industry exhibition, rather than the IAC proceedings. It looks to have become an industry...
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Colloquium - Energetics and lifecycles of radio galaxies: what can models...
© Colloquium Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play a key role in the formation and evolution of galaxies by imparting copious amounts of energy to their surroundings. Direct evidence indicates that...
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Open Dag / Open Day
© ASTRON Kom op zaterdag 6 oktober tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap naar de open dag van ASTRON en JIVE en leer alles over de grootste (radio)telescopen ter wereld! Hoe ontvangen we signalen uit...
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The second HI absorption workshop
© astron HI absorption offers a unique tool for studying all kind of objects in the Universe. It can be probed out to much larger distances than HI emission and one can detect it even at the highest...
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Weave Lens Alignment Tool
© schuil Last week the WEAVE Lens Alignment Tool production finished. It is a development for mechanical aligning each of the eight lenses of the two (Red and Blue) Weave Cameras. The tool contains...
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Taking a look around a LOFAR international station in VR
© Robert Schulz For sometime now I wanted to create a 360-degree animation that can be experienced with and without virtual reality headsets. The first results of this endeavour are now available on...
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The Big Wipe
© ASTRON The LOFAR post-processing cluster "CEP4" uses the Lustre file system for its main data storage. Lustre is a distributed, shared file system, capable of massive parallel reads and writes of...
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ASTRON/JIVE/NOVA Open Dag
© ASTRON Open Day 2018: a big success! On Saturday 6 October 2018, more than 500 people visited the ASTRON/JIVE/NOVA Open Day during the Science Weekend (Weekend van de Wetenschap). The day was filled...
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Beginning of the first APERTIF shakedown!
© Roy van der Werp Friday 12th October marked the first day of the APERTIF shakedown, an operations test designed to help us assess how the overall system is doing and how close we are to our aimed-for...
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The Earth and the far side of the Moon
© MingChuan Wei, Harbin Institute of Technology This image shows our own planet Earth, as well as the far side of the Moon. The image was taken with a camera linked to an amateur radio transceiver...
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First meetup of the Dutch Research Software Engineering community
© nl-RSE Earlier this year, the initiative was taken to organise the Dutch Research Software Engineer (RSE) community, inspired by the British and German RSE initiative. On 20 september, the first...
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Colloquium - What Happened in 774 CE? Investigating the Largest Cosmic...
© Colloquium Cosmic-ray bombardment initiates the production of a number of different isotopes in the atmosphere, particularly 14C (or radiocarbon). The activity of 14C in the atmosphere has varied...
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Christiaan Huygens prijs
© ASTRON The Christiaan Huygens prijs is awarded annually for an outstanding Dutch PhD thesis. Each year the prize is granted in one of the fields of study in which Christiaan Huygens made a sizeable...
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Dr. Daniele Michilli
© ASTRON On September 14th, 2018, Daniele Michilli (ASTRON/UvA) successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Aula of the University of Amsterdam. Daniele's thesis is entitled "Discovery and...
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