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Detection of radio emission from the Tau Bootis system by LOFAR
© Obs. Paris/U. Cornell William Langland once said: "Ac astronomye is an hard thyng, And yvel for to knowe" (In modern English: "Now, astronomy is a difficult discipline, and the devil to...
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In Memoriam: Prof Ir Cees van Schooneveld (1933-2021)
© Rudolf le Poole In 1978, IAU Colloquium 49 (Image Formation from Cohaerence Functions in Astronomy) was held in Groningen, to celebrate and emphasize the huge success of the new Westerbork Synthesis...
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NenuFAR strides towards imaging observations with NICKEL
© NenuFAR/ASTRON Thanks to its newly acquired brain NICKEL, NenuFAR is carrying out astronomical observations utilizing its new imaging mode. NICKEL (NenuFAR Imaging Compute Kluster Elaborated from...
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Winterwonderland
© Merijn Martens Last week, the Dwingelderheide had been transformed into a winter wonderland. Unfortunately, thanks to the Corona measures, it was not possible for everyone to enjoy this beautiful...
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Climate neutral by 2030
© Warme Truien Dag / ASTRON Climate neutral by 2030; that is the ambition that ASTRON has set itself, together with the other NWO Institutes.Last year, we therefore started the Sustainability Roadmap,...
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Cygnus X-1 contains a 21-solar mass black hole
© International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research The evolution of massive stars is influenced by the mass lost to stellar winds over their lifetimes. These winds limit the masses of the stellar...
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Low-frequency monitoring of flare star binary CR Draconis: Long-term...
© Callingham et al. (2021) Recently detected coherent low-frequency radio emission from M dwarf systems (the smallest and most abundant stars in our Galaxy) shares similarities with emission produced...
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LOFAR from space
© European Union, Copernicus Sentinel The LOFAR core is clearly visible on this Sentinel image from space, taken 11 February 2021. The HBA tiles have been blown clear of snow by the wind, which makes...
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Colloquium: A Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS)
© CC-BY-NC-SA; Image credit: Di Li The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope has transited into normal operation starting 2020. The science committee has approved half of the time for...
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LED there be light!
© Derkjan Pepping To improve our environmental footprint we are changing the lighting to LED, which in our case is not as easy as it sounds.All light panels are tested and selected for the best EMC...
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Colloquium: High-resolution study with interstellar lenses
© CC-BY-SA-NC credit: Dongzi Li Radio waves propagating in space are often scattered into multiple paths by the ionized interstellar medium. It has long been realized that the scattering screens could...
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New aerial picture of superterp
© CC-BY-4.0 Nationaal Georegister The Dutch Kadaster (Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency) creates a new aerial photograph of The Netherlands every year, as noted before. This image shows an...
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Colloquium: Finding and Observing Pulsars in the Galactic Centre
© CC-BY-SA-NC credit: Ralph Eatough It has been a longstanding goal of pulsar astronomers to find pulsars in the Galactic Centre (GC). Such pulsars can be used for precision tests of gravity,...
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Colloquium: Astronomical discovery in the era of Big Data
© Image submitted by speaker as part of their work. Emille IshidaThe next generation of astronomical surveys will completely change the discovery process in astronomy. Faced with millions of possible...
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An up to date view on TMSS progress: TMSS Infographics
© A. Klazema ASTRON is preparing for next-generation LOFAR operations by developing TMSS. The Telescope Manager Specification System is a brand-new software application for the specification,...
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#Guess-Who?
© ? Although we all do our best not to get out of touch with our colleagues because of the ongoing lock-down, it has been over a year since we have seen most of our colleagues. For new ASTRON...
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International Womenâs Day 2021
© ASTRON This year on International Womenâs Day, astronomer Caterina Tiburzi gave a lecture and did a q&a session with third and fourth year students (bilingual education) of the Vincent van Gogh...
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Peter Maat Photonics @ASTRON
© ASTRON Peter Maat, our photonics specialist at ASTRON, makes a nice career move to Lionix in Twente.Peter introduced photonics at ASTRON and eighteen years of significant input to several...
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Colloquium: Astrophysical Sciences with African Instruments: Bent Jets and...
© Image submitted by the speaker as part of their work. MeerKAT is currently churning out impressive science results. One of the new results is the discovery of an interaction between jets of a radio...
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EUCARA 2021
© - Since 2016, the European community of amateur radio astronomers has organized a biennial conference, EUCARA (European Conference on Amateur Radio Astronomy). The first of these conferences was held...
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