News Overview
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.
Nederlandse antennes uitgerold achter de maan
De drie antennes van de Nederlands-Chinese radiotelescoop die achter de maan hangt, zijn uitgerold.
Nederlandse onderzoekers offeren telescooptijd voor blik op eerste interstellaire komeet
Een team van Poolse en Nederlandse onderzoekers publiceert vandaag, maandag 14 oktober, de eerste details over een komeet die van buiten ons zonnestelsel lijkt te komen.
The Netherlands to host the premier conference on data analysis software and systems for astronomy
The 29th edition of the ADASS conference will be held for the first time in the Netherlands at MartiniPlaza in Groningen between 6-10 October.
Zes sterrenstelsels ontdekt met amper donkere materie
Een internationaal team sterrenkundigen onder leiding van Pavel Mancera Piña heeft zes lichtzwakke dwergsterrenstelsels ontdekt die amper donkere materie bevatten.
Royal couple visits ASTRON
On 18 September 2019 the Royal couple visited ASTRON and the Dwingeloo Telescope as part of their ‘Streekbezoek’ to the province of Drenthe.