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10 years of LOFAR highlights: Why lightning often strikes twice

Although the saying goes ‘lightning never strikes the same place twice’, in fact it often does. Why it does so however, has long remained a mystery, but in 2019 a team of scientists led by the University of Groningen (RUG) used LOFAR to shed light on this matter.

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Published by the editorial team, 29 May 2020

LOFAR images cosmic radio monsters

Pareidolia is a tendency that pushes humans to see shapes in clouds or faces in inanimate objects.

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Published by the editorial team, 3 March 2020

Help to find the location of newly discovered black holes in the LOFAR Radio Galaxy Zoo project

Scientists are asking for the public’s help to find the origin of hundreds of thousands of galaxies that have been discovered by the largest radio telescope ever built: LOFAR.

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Published by the editorial team, 25 February 2020
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