News Overview
ASTRON in Science magazine and Physics World
ASTRON has appeared in Science Magazine and Physics World with two articles about LOFAR.
LOFAR observes across borders
An international group of astronomers have succeeded in the first joint observations between the LOFAR stations in Exloo and Effelsberg.
Spacegirls present extraordinary space project at ASTRON
On Thursday 10 September, ASTRON welcomes Anne, Esther, Iris, Jessica, Malou, Mirthe and Sophie, from Assen.
ASTRON astronomers make light work of pulsars!
ASTRON Astronomers Joeri van Leeuwen and Jason Hessels won the ‘Enlighten Your Research’ competition of SURFNet.
ASTRON creates new nature reserve in Drenthe
Astronomy can produce fascinating and unexpected results: a completely new nature reserve resulting from the building of a telescope.
ASTRON’s new LOFAR telescope shows first fringes
A team of astronomers and engineers at ASTRON has successfully detected correlated interferometric radio signals from the sky with the first full-scale LOFAR stations.
Spacegirls win Dutch space competition CanSat
The Spacegirls from Assen, have won the national space competition for high school students, called CanSat.
An exploding star in an “exploding” galaxy
Discovery of radio supernova SN 2008iz in the nearby starburst galaxy M82
“Missing Link” reveals birth of a radio millisecond pulsar
As part of an international team of astronomers, ASTRON astronomers Jason Hessels and Joeri van Leeuwen have discovered a unique binary star system.
Most distant detection of water in the Universe
Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date.
10 Million Euro for RadioNet FP7!
RadioNet FP7 has grown, now involving 26 partners from 13 different countries, contributing effort to 18 independent work packages.
Westerbork Telescope participates in marathon observation
Radio telescopes around the world will conduct a nearly continuous 33-hour observation of three quasars today and tomorrow.