News Overview
ASTRON astronomer competes in National Science Quiz 2010
Marijke Haverkorn is competing in the 17th edition of the National Science Quiz with two other scientists on Sunday 26 December against a team of journalists.
Astronomers over the moon about Apertif!
Astronomers at ASTRON have demonstrated the feasibility of a new receiver technology that will have a great impact on radio astronomy.
Astronomers discover most massive neutron star yet known
Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star yet found, a discovery with strong and wide-ranging impacts across several fields of physics and astrophysics.
Open Day 2010 big success
The Open Day 2010 of ASTRON, JIVE and the NOVA Optical/Infrared group at ASTRON, held on Sunday 24 October at the Westerbork telescope, was a big success.
The most distant galaxy ever measured
A European team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far.
Dutch school teacher stars in American comic
The story of the discovery of ‘Hanny’s Voorwerp’ has been made into an American comic book.
NEXPReS to further advanced computing and networking for astronomy use
The European Commission has awarded the NEXPReS 3.5 million euros to advance data transfer, buffering, storage and distributed computing technologies.
‘Citizen scientists’ discover new pulsar in Arecibo telescope data
Three citizen scientists – a German and an American couple – have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory.
Two Rubicon awards for astronomy researchers
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded 31 young, promising scientists funding from the Rubicon programme.
Unravelling the mystery of Hanny’s Voorwerp
A group of researchers have made new, high resolution radio observations of the region of space around Hanny’s Voorwerp.
Call for expressions of interest for Apertif surveys
ASTRON invites the world-wide community to submit Expressions of Interest to define, prepare and perform large survey programmes with Apertif.
ASTRON is working together with Australia and South Africa on SKA
ASTRON has signed two separate bi-lateral statements of intent with the SKA South Africa Project and Australia’s CSIRO.