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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.

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Published by the editorial team, 19 October 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 18 October 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 20 September 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 26 August 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 19 August 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 20 June 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 7 June 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 1 June 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 13 April 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 5 April 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 23 March 2011

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.

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Published by the editorial team, 1 February 2011
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