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It's raining bursts
© ASTRON/Futselaar/Hessels/Nimmo FRB 20200120E is a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source discovered by CHIME/FRB and precisely localised by our AstroFlash team using the European VLBI Network....
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Colloquium: Tectonics and magma oceanography of rocky exoplanets
© Mark Garlick / Artistic illustration of the dayside magma ocean of GJ 367b, a high-density, ultrashort period sub-Earth exoplanet. The scarcity of geochemical constraints on the Hadean climate limits...
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Colloquium: Astrochemistry and the Origin of Life
© Veronica Allen / generated from DALL·E 2 How did we get here? Are we alone in the universe? These questions are as old as humanity. As technology advances, we can increase our understanding of how...
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Virtual tour around the Milky Way
© Open Science Hubs Drenthe For the Open Science Hub "De Melkweg" in Dwingeloo, a virtual reality experience was developed that shows a tour of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies. Visitors of the...
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Roadmap Netherlands Instrumentation for the European Extremely Large Telescope
© NOVA NOVA has been awarded nearly 18 million Euros from NWO to develop and build instruments on the future European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in northern Chile. The European Southern...
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Inés Pastor-Marazuela successfully defends thesis
© IPM A little while ago, Inés Pastor-Marazuela (ASTRON + UvA) defended her thesis "Exploring the link between Neutron Stars and Fast Radio Bursts". This excellent body of work was the latest in a...
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The winter sky above the LOFAR antenna near Unterweilenbach
© CC BY-NC-ND The image shows one of the most interesting parts of the night sky above the LOFAR antenna field near the village Unterweilenbach in Bavaria, Germany.In the lower section both antenna...
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An ASTRON life in laptops
© Hessels/ASTRON This Daily Image shows the 4 laptops I have used since joining ASTRON in October of 2008, along with the approximate year I started using each. A quick estimation suggests that each...
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Sterrenkijkdagen 2023
© CC-BY 4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema On February 25th, CAMRAS participated in the "Landelijke Sterrenkijkdagen" (National Star Gazing Days) organized by KNVWS. Some 130 visitors visited the Dwingeloo radio...
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Placing white stickers on the HBA's
© Jessica Dempsey On March 2nd, RTV Drenthe witnessed the start of what will become one of the art works of Into Nature this year: our very own LOFAR will literally be the canvas of a piece or art that...
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Orion rising over the LOFAR station in Unterweilenbach
© CC BY-NC, Remeis-Observatory and ECAP, Steven Hämmerich and Philipp Weber The image was taken on the 8th of February 2023 in Unterweilenbach, Bavaria, Germany. It shows the LOFAR antennas at night.
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The building of LOFAR Latvia from space
© CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ESA This time-lapse, consisting of photos from the Copernicus SENTINEL-2 mission, shows the build process of the Latvian LOFAR station LV-614 in Irbene. The satellite that took these...
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LOFAR core from space
© CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ESA The snow that fell last Friday and Saturday was nicely visible on this image made by the ESA Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite. I overplotted the LOFAR antennas (LBA and HBA) as...
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Testing the Ford Focus Wagon 1.0 EcoBoost Hybrid
© Martijn Tilma For contracting new company cars ASTRON leased several vans for LOFAR maintenance. These 4x4 vans are customized in France with a raised limited slip differential. In this way our...
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Colloquium: First JWST results on Galaxy Evolution in the Early Universe
© E. Iani & K. Caputi Since starting science operations less than a year ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revolutionizing our view of the early Universe. With its unique capabilities,...
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WSRT in the snow
© Rene Lourens The WSRT in the snow on the 11th of March 2023 in Zwiggelte, Drenthe, The Netherlands.
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ERC Advanced Grant for Jason Hessels - EuroFlash: exploring the origins of...
© Futselaar / Hessels / ASTRON Fast radio bursts (FRBs) present astronomers with a compelling mystery: what is creating these brilliant but ephemeral flashes that travel billions of lightyears before...
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Artisanal poster of unique masers and observations at the IAUS 380
© This is my poster hand drawn by me, so feel free to use it. Results are in prep for publication. Roughly every five years, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) hosts a symposium dedicated to...
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Special colloquium: Explaining life-cycle adaptation of migratory birds to...
© Christiaan Both One of the prime ecological effects of climate change is that seasonal timing of organisms changes. As springs get warmer, trees leave out earlier, caterpillars that depend on these...
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Colloquium: Diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters at high definition
© Andrea Botteon Radio halos are Mpc-scale diffuse synchrotron sources detected in merging galaxy clusters. Their origin is associated with the formation process of the cluster, where part of the...
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