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How nature builds planets
© Matthijs van der Wiel / Stip Media With thousands of exoplanets having been discovered in the past few decades, it is now beyond doubt that planets are extremely common. In fact, almost every star...
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The True Master Blaster
© ASTRON Mechanical Group & NOVA Somewhere at the end of the corridor, not the furthest corner (though it might seem to some a caveman's dungeon where only the bravest come to seek wisdom), is a...
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PCIe on Uniboard2
© DESP We are Dehim Verveen (pictured left) and Thijs Snijder (pictured right), two electrical engineering students who for the past half year, have been working on researching how NVMe could be used...
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Efficient Deep Learning programme kick-off
© ASTRON Artificial intelligence and in particular deep learning are increasingly becoming part of our society, either embedded in our infrastructure and day to day products, or present in our...
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Gert Kruithof leaves the R&D nest
© Pictures made by Albert van Duin Tomorrow will be the last day for Gert Kruithof as head of the ASTRON R&D department. In the more than 5 years that he worked for this innovative department, he...
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Colloquium - The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way
© Colloquium The Milky Way's magnetic field has coherent structures on Galactic scales, following spiral arms but also Galactic outflows. It also has a turbulent component, which influences the...
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Time to look for White Rabbits
© JIVE Last week Friday, 25 January, the work of the SKA Signal and Data Transport (SaDT) consortium was concluded with the formal close out of the Critical Design Review. This is the consortium where...
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The Netherlands will partner to build the largest radio telescope in the world
© SKA We are excited that the Netherlands will partner in the construction and management of the largest radio telescope in the world, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This ambitious project will lead...
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A silent Tribute to the Power Woman
© PF It is sometimes hard to bid farewell to a valued colleague. You have this one day, 19th of July 2018 - the last day at work, that as a group you can give a token of appreciation and gratitude to...
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Sport and games evening
© PV On Thursday 24-Jan the Personeelsvereniging has organised a sport and games event. About 25 people had subscribed for the event and a few stray post-docs also took part. From 5pm till about 9pm...
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Colloquium - Exoplanet radio searches
© Keck Institute for Space Studies I will summarize the underlying theory motivating these searches and the consequences of detection of exoplanetary radio emissions. Then I will present and discuss a...
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Moon behind the focus
© CC-BY-4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema There are several excuses for this picture not turning out perfectly. Given the following, I think it's not too bad. 1) It was taken using my cellphone. 2) Lacking a...
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Keeping an Eye on the Sky with I-LOFAR
© Open Access As a foundation for the thesis of my undergraduate degree, I worked alongside members of the Irish LOFAR (I-LOFAR) consortium to setup an environment to allow for simple all-sky imaging...
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First detection of chromatic DM in pulsar observations
© Accepted for publication in A&A [Donner et al. 2019, accepted for publication in A&A, https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03814 ] We successfully detected frequency-dependent Dispersion Measures (DMs)...
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Today's colloquium: Globular clusters in the Gaia era
© NASA, The Hubble Heritage Team, STScI, AURA Globular clusters have long been considered to be spherically symmetric, isotropic, non-rotating stellar systems. However, this simple picture has been...
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Kleibrink about Grote Reber
© FOCUS Magazine Herman Kleibrink, working as a photographer at the Leidse Sterrewacht from 1931 to 1975, is mostly known around Astron for his film "De bouw van een radiotelescoop". However, he was...
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AARTFAAC2.0 Workshop
© AARTFAAC team On February 11 - 12, 2019 ASTRON hosted the second AARTFAAC workshop. The participants various topics, including latest science results of the A6 array as well as the results of the...
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The first data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
© The LOFAR surveys team Today the first full quality LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) data release was published. With a resolution of 6arcsec and a median sensitivity of 0.07mJy/beam, this survey...
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Monitoring sky brightness
© F. Colomer & STARS4ALL Light pollution is the presence of artificial light in the night environment originated in human activity. Humans, birds and several other animals are finding it...
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The First Westerbork HALOGAS Data Release
© (c) George Heald (CSIRO) The Westerbork Hydrogen Accretion in Local Galaxies (HALOGAS) Survey is a deep survey of 24 local galaxies in the 21cm emission line of neutral hydrogen. The aims of the...
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