News Overview
Water vapour reveals how stars form around black hole
A team led by astronomer Paul van der Werf has discovered that a black hole in the young universe is surrounded by a large disk of gas and dust.
Prestigious research grant for young ASTRON researcher
The NWO has awarded 159 young, recently promoted researchers, among whom dr. Adam Deller (ASTRON) a Veni grant.
World’s largest radio telescope bigger with Swedish LOFAR station
On Monday, Sweden’s Minister for Education and Research, Jan Björklund, will open Onsala Space Observatory’s newest telescope.
God is an eJ
“God is an Ej. Not a Dj! Not a Vj!! Welcome in the information Universe where God runs the show as an e-J.
LOFAR telescope shines at Noorderzon Festival
Between 18 and 28 August, the LOFAR telescope will be part of a show at the famous Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen, the Netherlands.
ATLAS3D project: Replacing handle of Hubble’s tuning fork
A team of 25 astronomers has shown that many presumed spheroid galaxies are in fact spiral galaxies.
Heino Falcke receives highest Dutch scientific award
Prof.Heino Falcke, Professor of Astroparticle Physics and Radio Astronomy at RadboudUniversity Nijmegen, received a Spinoza prize on Monday 6 June.
LOFAR makes deeper images of Universe than ever before
A team led by astronomers at ASTRON and the Kapteyn Institute have used LOFAR to make the deepest wide-field images in the spectrum around 150 MHz.
LOFAR takes the pulse of the radio sky
A powerful new telescope designed and built by ASTRON is allowing an international team of scientists to have their “best-ever look” at pulsars.
New monitoring facility ready for European navigation system
On Wednesday 6 April, ASTRON will demonstrate the first qualified monitoring facility for the Galileo navigation system to TAS-I and ESA.
Radio telescope gets double vision
ASTRON has demonstrated the ability to multi-task astronomical observations by pointing one telescope in two completely different directions simultaneously.
C’est magnifique: LOFAR goes multi-national
The signals from antenna stations of LOFAR have been simultaneously combined together in the LOFAR BlueGene/P supercomputer.