Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Information about ASTRON
Links
NWO Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Astronomy institutes in the Netherlands
- Sterrenwacht Leiden (RU Leiden)
- Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (RU Groningen)
- ASTRON (Dwingeloo)
- JIVE (Dwingeloo)
- Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Astronomy Department (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Sterrenkundig Instituut (KU Nijmegen)
- Sterrenkundig Instituut (RU Utrecht)
Educational links
Primary school level
- Kidsastronomy. Learn about astronomy.
- Universe Awareness All kind of activities to inspire you with our wonderful cosmos
- Space All kind of activities and information about space by ESA (in Dutch)
- Sterrenkids All about astronomy and space travel (in Dutch)
- Astronomy for kids and for teachers (Dutch page)
- Yourney through space in 80 lessons Teaching material (in Dutch)
High school level
- NRAO educational pages: the US portal focussing on radio astronomy.
- ATNF: the Australian telescope pages for outreach and education
- ESA educational pages: the European portal on space science.
- The Portal to the Universe: features news about anything in astronomy, astronomy pictures of the day and live images of the Sun.
- The galaxy zoo: a user friendly astronomical software which allowed the Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel to made her discovery.
- Virtual radio telescope: a demonstration of Earth-rotation aperture synthesis (you have different choice of Radio Telescopes among which the WSRT).
- World Wide Telescope: World Wide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.
- Google Sky: To help you explore the far reaches of our universe, Google has teamed up with astronomers at some of the largest observatories in the world to bring you a new view of the sky and look at millions of stars and galaxies.
- Science in school. Highlighting the best in science teaching and research
- Challenge the Universe All kind of activities to explore the universe
- The evolving universe Information about our solar system, our galaxy and the univers of galaxies
- Education about astronomy: All kind of activities and information by the Netherlands research school for astronomy (in Dutch).
- Alles over sterrenkunde (in Dutch)
- Sterrenkunde in Nederland (in Dutch)
- Astronomy Links for public and education
Space research in the Netherlands
Colloquia/Seminars at institutes in the Netherlands
Links to astronomy information around the world
- AstroWeb-CDS Astronomy on the Internet (Strasbourg)
- AstroWeb-NRAO Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet (NRAO)
- E-mail addresses of Astronomers (worldwide)
- International Astronomy Meetings
Various astronomical organizations
- American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF)
- European Astronomical Society (EAS)
- International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- Nederlandse Astronomen Club (NAC)
- Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
- European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie (NOVA)
- Radionet FP7
- European VLBI Network
Journals and preprints
- astro-ph preprint archive (Mirrors in Europe: Augsburg, Germany; Trieste, Italy or Southampton UK or the original site at Los Alamos xxx.lanl.gov)
- The Astrophysical Journal Astronomy and Astrophysics (Main Journal)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics (Supplement Series)
- New Astronomy, Nature, Science Archived, New Scientist, ADS Abstracts at CfA and a mirror at CDS (Strasbourg), Database with abstracts of articles (TU Delft)
Miscellaneous links
- LOFAR for general public or for scientists
- Square Kilometre Array, international radio telescope
- AstroTec Holding BV
- North Stars, technology transfer
- URSI (The International Union of Radio Science)
- URSI (The International Union of Radio Science - NL)
- NERG (Vereniging van ingenieurs die werkzaam zijn op het gebied van de elektronica en/of verwerking en transmissie van informatie)
- Science in the Netherlands
- Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Weer- en Sterrenkunde