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Jessica Dempsey nominated for Drenthe Woman in the Media Award

ASTRON-director Jessica Dempsey has been nominated for the Woman in the Media Award for Drenthe.

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Published by the editorial team, 5 January 2023

People of ASTRON: Klaas Kliffen

Klaas Kliffen is a software engineer without a background in radio astronomy.

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People of ASTRON
Published by the editorial team, 22 December 2022

ASTRON involved in European consortium to develop next-gen technologies for radio astronomy infrastructures

The RADIOBLOCKS project has been granted 10 M€ by the European Commission to develop “common building blocks” for technological solutions beyond state-of-the-art, that will enable a broad range of new science and enhance European scientific competitiveness.

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Published by the editorial team, 16 December 2022

Construction of Square Kilometre Array commences

Today, SKA Observatory celebrates the start of on-site construction of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

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Published by the editorial team, 5 December 2022

Astronomers discuss future of Space VLBI in Dwingeloo

On 17-19 October 2022, JIVE and ASTRON co-hosted the 3rd Next Generation VLBI workshop (ngSVLBI-3) in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands. The hybrid workshop was attended both in-person and remotely by about ninety participants from all over the world.

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Published by the editorial team, 14 November 2022

LOFAR detects gigantic radio sources in the universe

An international research team has discovered four radio sources of up to ten million light years in size: megahalos.

LOFAR
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Published by the editorial team, 19 October 2022

People of ASTRON: Fanna Lautenbach

In People of ASTRON we 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? Software engineer Fanna Lautenbach studied both astronomy and computer science and found her perfect working place here at ASTRON.

People of ASTRON
Published by the editorial team, 7 October 2022

ERIS 2022 School inspires next generation of radio astronomers

Over 70 students from all over the world participated in the 9th European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS 2022) hosted by JIVE and ASTRON in Dwingeloo (the Netherlands) on 19-23 September 2022.

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WSRT-APERTIF
Published by the editorial team, 30 September 2022

TOPIC-led consortium develops CSP-Low for SKA

The SKA telescopes are currently in the construction phase, and with it the central signal processor (CSP) for the SKA Low frequency telescope, called CSP-Low. CSP-Low will be integrated and delivered to site by a consortium led by the Dutch company TOPIC; ASTRON is one of its subcontractors. One of TOPIC’s specializations is designing and developing hardware, firmware, and software for sophisticated systems.

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Published by the editorial team, 1 July 2022

People of ASTRON: Tom Kamphuis

In People of ASTRON we 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? Tom Kamphuis is Head Software Delivery and loves that he can contribute to groundbreaking science.

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People of ASTRON
Published by the editorial team, 27 June 2022

ASTRON lanceert proeftuin voor ondernemers

Om onze kennis over het heelal te vergroten, verlegt ASTRON voortdurend de grenzen van de technologie in haar radiotelescopen. Deze expertise stellen wij nu ter beschikking om de innovatieve kracht van ondernemers te vergroten. Hiertoe lanceren we het Wireless Data Lab (WDL), een proeftuin waarmee ASTRON haar kennis en faciliteiten op het gebied van draadloze dataoverdracht beschikbaar stelt aan het bedrijfsleven en andere instellingen.

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Published by the editorial team, 4 April 2022

ASTRON-led consortium working on SKAO

A consortium led by ASTRON is developing important software components for processing the vast amounts of data that the soon-to-be largest radio telescope in the world will produce.

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Published by the editorial team, 30 March 2022

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