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Tracking a Moon mission with the Dwingeloo telescope
© - The Artemis I mission is currently still ongoing. Aboard the capsule that by now has orbited the Moon once and is on its way back to Earth, are several 'Moonikins' as well as a Snoopy and Shaun the...
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SKA featured in Kidsweek
© Kidsweek "Papa weet jij wat het SKA is?"- My daughterThe Square Kilometre Array appeared in the December 8th edition of the Dutch kids newspaper Kidsweek. Motivated by the recent start of SKA...
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Spot the difference!
© Ilse van Bemmel The CASA software is now capable of calibrating the majority of VLBI observations. A paper describing the new functionality and a comparison with the AIPS package is now published in...
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Purple Friday 2022
© The pictured ASTRON/JIVE staff The second Friday in December is Purple Friday: an opportunity to show solidarity with LGBTIQ+ people by wearing the colour purple. This event originated in schools,...
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The new Telescope Manager and Specification System for LOFAR
© Sander ter Veen The new Telescope Manager Specification System (TMSS) for LOFAR is a replacement of the current applications for specifying and scheduling the LOFAR observations. It is an update to...
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van Swinderen Prize for Pavel Mancera Piña
© Tom Oosterloo After obtaining his PhD degree with the Cum Laude distinction this summer, on December 13, Pavel Mancera Piña has now been awarded both the Public Award as well as the Jury Award of...
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Regiostars Award 2022
© Photo's copyright by Regiostars LOFAR has been nominated for the âRegiostars 2022â award along with 14 other projects that have received European Regional Development Funding (ERDF) over the past...
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Francisco âPacoâ Colomer farewell message
© JIVE Dear colleagues,After almost 6 years in JIVE (5 as director), the time has come for me to step down and move to new projects.Coming to JIVE has been one of the best decisions of my life, it has...
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L2TS sky image of Cas A
© ASTRON To test the entire LOFAR 2.0 station signal chain from celestial source to station beam, a sky image of Cassiopeia A was made using the LOFAR 2.0 Test Station (L2TS). The L2TS is a limited...
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TMSS and agile software development
© scrum.org Development of TMSS has been done utilizing a product-centric agile approach, which provided stakeholders and customers (management, ILT-board, operators, astronomers) with a direct line of...
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ESCAPE to the future.
© CC-BY In the last three and a half years, representatives from European research infrastructures (political lingo for what otherwise is refered to as instruments) worked together in the ESCAPE...
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Prestigious Chinese award for Richard Strom
© Tom Oosterloo On December 20, at an informal ceremony at the Chinese Embassy in the Hague, Richard Strom, former astronomer at ASTRON, received the International Science and Technology Cooperation...
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Rudolf le Poole turns 80
© Hermine le Poole Today, Rudolf le Poole will be honoured at the Leiden Sterrewacht for his many years as their Resident Instrumental Maverick. In the sixties and seventies, during the 1st period when...
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Michiel Brentjens wins Teacher of the Year 2022 award
© (Photo: Monique Shaw) When all classes had to go online due to corona, Michiel Brentjens turned his Radio Astronomy course around, changing it into one without lectures or exams, but one in which...
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2nd year research practicum at ASTRON
© Hessels/ASTRON In the week of January 9th, 2023, ASTRON hosted four bright and motivated Bachelor students from the University of Amsterdam for a 2nd year research practicum. The students, Mara,...
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Colloquium: Novel views on planet formation and dust evolution: connecting...
© L. Francis & N. van der Marel Structures such as gaps and rings in ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks have long been hailed as signposts of planet formation. However, a direct link between...
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Colloquium: Blazar scam above redshift 4
© Krisztina Gabányi High-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) provide valuable insight into the early phase of structure formation, black hole growth, and naturally to the evolution of AGN...
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Green surprise
© Paula There are those mornings that you step into your office and BAM. Something is different and a huge grin pops up; it brightens up your face as you see some green surprise on your desk....
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Colloquium: The carbon footprint and energy consumption of LOFAR
© ASTRON The sustainability and carbon footprint of astronomy is getting more and more attention. The development, construction and operations of our research infrastructures are important...
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