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Confluence training with Avisi
© ASTRON ASTRON management has decided to adopt Confluence more widely in the organisation, where it was used mostly for a few projects and the documentation of the telescopes before Corona. As part of...
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Colloquium: MaserDB.net: star formation signposts archive and statistical...
© Image credit: Dmitry A. Ladeyschikov / Maserdb.net Maser emission is proven to be an efficient probe of star formation, however, accessing this rich source of information takes some work. Due to the...
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In Memoriam: Tony Foley (1957 - 2021)
© SKA South Africa This week our long-time colleague Tony Foley died in South Africa. He had been suffering from cancer for some time. After his Cambridge PhD, he worked from 1985 as a WSRT system...
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An Apertif search for radio emission from a double neutron-star merger
© N/A Detection of the electromagnetic emission from coalescing binary neutron stars is important for understanding their properties such as the outflow of material. Electromagnetic follow-up of the...
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EUCARA-2021
© EUCARA-2021 LOC On Saturday 17th April, the European Conference on Amateur Radio Astronomy was held. It was organized by CAMRAS, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the opening of the...
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Colloquium: The JUICE mission
© CC-BY-SA-NC JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - is the first large mission in the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. The mission was selected in May 2012. Due to launch in 2022, and to arrive at...
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ASTRON building as Faraday cage
© ASTRON Very sensitive receivers are developed and tested at ASTRON, both in the Lab and next to the ASTRON building in the test field. In order to be able to test our receivers, radio frequency...
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First release renewed Confluence and new intranet
© ASTRON In the first week of May, the first part of a renewed Confluence and a new intranet has been released.Although further steps in the roll-out will follow and it isn't perfect yet, I am very...
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Smart data processing in radio astronomy
© Authors From computer chess to self-driving automobiles, artificial intelligence is changing our day-to-day lives. A computer can learn to perform various heretofore human tasks by repeated attempts...
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Check: update CRM completed!
© ASTRON When I started at ASTRON in 2014, during one of the first meetings with all ASTRON secretaries, a colleague mentioned that our Customer Relation Management (CRM) database, called Act!, needed...
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Facility maintenance using classic Landrover
© ASTRON Maintenance crew updating signs reminding forest visitors to turn off their mobile phones.This particular place in the forest is very hard to reach, even using our 4x4 cars.Luckily colleague...
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Colloquium: Journey with Maser Variability to Research High-mass Star...
© Image credit: Koichiro Sugiyama Cosmic masers (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) are one of the brightest radio emitters in the interstellar medium, and are detected from...
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Mastery in communication workshop
© ASTRON Recently, the third edition was held of the internal workshop "Mastery in communication". In only two hours the participants learned the basics of the Process Communication Model (PCM)...
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[Wednesday at 10:00] EVN Seminar: X-ray binaries unveiled by very high...
© JIVE A new edition of the EVN Online Seminars will take place on Wednesday June 9 at 10:00.Pikky Atri (from ASTRON) will be our speaker, and her talk would be focused on how studying black hole X-ray...
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Our King Willem-Alexander opens largest solar park
© Astron; Solarfields (Photo) On Friday afternoon the 19th of May, our King opened the largest solar park in the Netherlands. With 120 Megawatt and 288.000 solar panels on an area as large as the the...
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Live-streaming the partial solar eclipse
© Tammo Jan Dijkema On 10 June, we showed the partial solar eclipse from the Dwingeloo radio telescope in a live stream organized by volunteers and staff from the Oude Sterrewacht in Leiden that also...
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Our King Willem-Alexander opens largest solar park
© Astron; Solarfields (Photo) On Friday afternoon the 19th of May, our King opened the largest solar park in the Netherlands. With 120 Megawatt and 288.000 solar panels on an area as large as the the...
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Model Dwingeloo telescope in the Science Hub
© CC-BY-4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema This daily image is viewed best on Youtube.This image features the 1:20 scale model of the Dwingeloo Telescope, that was made at the mechanical department and was featured...
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Colloquium: Stellar interactions & transients
© NA The advent and development of large-scale time domain surveys are revealing the existence of a large and diverse zoo of transients; common transients that can be used as tools to constrain GR or...
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Online escape room The Great Escape
© The Great Escape/ASTRON On April 29th, ASTRON's PV participated in an online escape room. However, only moments after all participants had logged in to welcome their new colleague (top left), the...
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