News Overview
People of ASTRON: Caterina Tiburzi
People of ASTRON is a new series in which we will share stories about the people at ASTRON. Who are the people behind the discoveries and innovations and also, who are the people that make sure that everything runs smoothly?
Institutes and NWO release 29 million for shared computing power for physicists and astronomers
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) will invest 12 million euros in FuSE: an initiative of research institutes Nikhef and ASTRON to ensure future data capacity exists for science in particle physics and radio astronomy.
Measures coronavirus
In line with the advice from the Dutch government, the management of ASTRON and JIVE has decided to take measures to minimise the risk of coronavirus infection.
International consortium tasked with designing SKA-Low antennas completes work
The international engineering consortium tasked with designing the SKA-low has completed its work after six years of international collaboration.
Two ERC Advanced Grants for Dutch astronomers
Two Dutch astronomers each receive an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
Westerbork telescoop legt eerste kosmische radioflitsen vast
In Westerbork is in 2019 de upgrade van één van de snelste en meeste gevoelige radiotelescopen ter wereld voltooid.
LOFAR images cosmic radio monsters
Pareidolia is a tendency that pushes humans to see shapes in clouds or faces in inanimate objects.
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.
Jason Hessels receives Vici grant to localise Fast Radio Bursts
Jason Hessels has been awarded an NWO Vici grant for his project entitled “AstroFlash: probing the extremes of the Universe at high time and spatial resolution”.
LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environments
Using the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star GJ1151.
Test wind turbine near LOFAR meets agreed radio emission norms
The test turbine of wind farm “Drentse Monden en Oostermoer” meets the reduction of electromagnetic radiation as agreed in a covenant on the co-existence of a wind farm near the core of the LOFAR radio telescope.
A repeating Fast Radio Burst from a spiral galaxy deepens the mystery of where these signals originate from
Telescopes in the European VLBI Network (EVN) have observed a repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) in a spiral galaxy similar to our own.