News Overview
Laura Driessen wins De Zeeuw-Van Dishoeck Graduation Prize for Astronomy for her research with LOFAR
On 27 November, Laura Driessen received the annual Graduation Prize for Astronomy at the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW) in Haarlem.
New Fast Radio Burst Tools
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are one of the unresolved mysteries in the Universe.
New funding for Canadian Radio Astronomy Data Centre
Astronomers in Canada have received an award of $10 million to build a radio astronomy data centre.
ASTRON & JIVE open day 2017
On Sunday 8 October 2017, ASTRON & JIVE opened their doors to several hundred visitors during the Weekend of Science.
Astronomical airplane trails do not evade but lighten up
An international team of astronomers led by Francesco de Gasperin (Leiden University, the Netherlands) has witnessed an unexpected phenomenon in a merger of a two clusters of galaxies.
ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space – Dashing Hopes that Molecule May be Marker of Life
Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a comet.
ASTRON newest member Innovation Cluster Drachten
ASTRON newest member Innovation Cluster Drachten. ASTRON contributes to groundbreaking technologies.
Mystery solved: rare cosmic high energie particles come from outside our galaxy
The Pierre Auger Collaboration reports observational evidence demonstrating that high energy cosmic rays come from much further away than from our own Galaxy.
First Fast Radio Burst detected with Apertif
The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS), the new, high-speed, wide-field radio camera for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, has for the first time detected a bright Fast Radio Burst on 31 August 2017.
LOFAR radio telescope discovers record-breaking pulsar
Astronomers have discovered two rapidly rotating radio pulsars with LOFAR in the Netherlands by investigating unknown gamma-ray sources uncovered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Archaeology of active galaxies across the electromagnetic spectrum
The timescales over which galaxies form and evolve are outside the reach of human life. Thus, astronomers need to use indirect methods to derive the history of galaxies.
LOFAR Ireland officially launched
New antenna station further increases sensitivity of the world’s largest radio telescope.