Today, construction on the #SKA radio telescope officially started. Together with @CGI_Global, S[&]T, and @TriOpSys we are already developing important software components for processing the vast amounts of data the SKA telescope will produce.
https://www.astron.nl/astron-led-consortium-working-on-skao/
Today was the official start of the construction of the @SKAO's #SKA radio telescope in Australia and South Africa. Together with #TOPIC, we are already working on the development of the central signal processor for the SKA Low frequency telescope.
https://www.astron.nl/topic-led-consortium-develops-csp-low-for-ska/
Gigantic radio sources up to ten million light years in size discovered in the universe using the LOFAR radio telescope. Read more about this exciting result on the website of @HambObs https://www.qu.uni-hamburg.de/activities/news/29-09-22-megahalos-nature.html
On June 13-17, the LOFAR Family Meeting took place in Cologne. After two years LOFAR researchers could finally meet in person again. The meeting brings together LOFAR users and researchers to share new scientific results.
https://www.astron.nl/dailyimage/main.php?date=20220621
