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Practical issues at ASTRON/JIVE in corona time
© Business Support & Services The corona pandemic has influence on many aspects in the way we organise our day to day tasks. We all have to deal with the situations, like working at home, other...
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STELLAR Project Kick Off
© Copyright ASTRON STELLAR is a new project based on basic research and training in radio astronomy and space weather. It serves as a pilot for the development/strengthen of collaborations with...
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First direct radio discovery of a brown dwarf
© CC-BY-SA; Image credit: ASTRON/Danielle FutselaarBrown dwarfs (BD) span the range from the lowest mass stars (that burn hydrogen) to the most massive exoplanets. They have magnetospheres similar to...
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The CASA-VLBI workshop goes virtual
© Mikhail Lisakov, Ilsang Yoon, Des Small Originally intended as an in-person workshop for ~40 people, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the organisers of the CASA-VLBI workshop to an online platform. A...
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A fast radio burst source in our own Milky Way?
© Image credit: Danielle Futselaar Thousands of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have now been detected from distant galaxies, but how are they created? Finding such a source in our own Milky Way galaxy would...
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National Geographic Prize Photo
© Robert van der Meer Local photographer Robert van der Meer from Assen has won the National Geographic Photo Competition 2020, in the category "wildlife". His hunting-ground is the protected central...
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Colloquium: What can the spider web tell us ? A new pulsar story
© Guillaume Voisin Spiders are a recently defined class of millisecond pulsars in binary systems: the so-called black widows feature a very low-mass stellar companion (typically Mc <0.05 Msol), and...
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Excavation effort
© No copyright issues Towering excavation work of a mole at the LOFAR Superterp. Occasionally they dig underneath the ground mesh of an LBA, eventually tipping the antenna over.At the Superterp, this...
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Nobel week: discovery of black hole awarded
© Nobel Media This week is Nobel week. A week full of festivities in Sweden. The highlight is the Nobel Prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, however this year will be a bit different....
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Today's EVN Seminar (10:00): Galactic Maser Astrometry with VLBI: Current...
© JIVE A new EVN online seminar will take place today Wednesday 9 December at 10:00.Mareki Honma will talk about Galactic Maser Astrometry with VLBI: Current Status and Beyond.In this talk, he will...
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Today's colloquium: SunDish Project: Single-Dish Solar Imaging with INAF...
© Alberto Pellizzoni The SunDish project is devoted to radio imaging and monitoring of the solar atmosphere at high radio frequencies (at present 18-26 GHz, up to 100 GHz in perspective) through...
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Science at Low Frequencies VII Wraps Up
© Public This year's Science at Low Frequencies was the largest ever - with over 384 participants. The Netherlands virtually hosted the conference. LOFAR was well represented, with talks covering...
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ESCAPE data lake dress rehearsal.
© CC-BY The ESCAPE project brings together several partners from astronomy and particle physics. The DIOS (Data Infrastructure for Open Science) work package focuses on exploring frameworks for...
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LOFAR4SW 2020 highlights
© LOFAR4SW project 2020 has been a difficult and challenging in many ways. We all had to adapt to work under very unusual and challenging circumstances. For the LOFAR4SW project things were not...
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Happy Holidays from ASTRON
© ASTRON On behalf of our Board, Management Team and all of our staff, we wish you Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2021!
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Solargraph at the Dwingeloo Telescope
© CC-BY-4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema This image shows a solargraph taken from July till December 2020. It was created with a pinhole camera, in this case a tin can, with a tiny hole in it, with a piece of...
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Chris Broekema wins Young eScientist 2020 award
© Chris Broekema In a bit of good news to close out an interesting year, the Netherlands eScience Center announced on December 18th that Chris Broekema (ASTRON and the University of Cambridge) is one...
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Happy Holidays from ASTRON
© ASTRON On behalf of our Board, Management Team and all of our staff, we wish you Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2021!
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Goodbye Aspirant Senior Paul
© Henk Mulder, Richard Blaauw, Jurjen Sluman Time flies.. when Geert Kuper got his pension it took two people on different ends of the spectrum to replace him. One of the two was Paul, he joined us in...
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Colloquium: The astrophysics of black hole jets
© Monika Moscibrodzka (Radboud University) The Event Horizon Telescope is a global effort to construct an Earth-sized virtual radio telescope array, with the goal to make pictures and movies of two...
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