News Overview
People of ASTRON: Henk Vonk
In People of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. Henk Vonk has been working at ASTRON since 2017. He is a facilities employee.
People of ASTRON: Pieter Benthem
In People of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. Project manager Pienter Benthem has been working at ASTRON since 2008.
ASTRON reveals life cycle of supermassive black hole
For the first time LOFAR and WSRT-Apertif have been used together to measure the life cycle of supermassive black holes emitting radio waves.
People of ASTRON: Carin Lubbers-Leering
In People of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. Carin Lubbers-Leering is HR assistant at ASTRON and has been working with us since 2000.
People of ASTRON: Lesley Goudbeek
In People of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. Lesley Goudbeek has been design engineer at ASTRON since 2013.
People of ASTRON: Harish Vedantham
In People of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. In this episode we interview Dr. Harish Vedantham, junior scientist and working at ASTRON since 2018.
Cosmic flashes come in all different sizes
On May 24, four European telescopes took part in the global effort to understand mysterious cosmic flashes. The telescopes captured flashes of radio waves from an extreme, magnetised star in our galaxy.
Data release from the first year of the Apertif imaging surveys
The Apertif imaging team has released science data from the first year of science operations of WSRT-Apertif as the Apertif Data Release 1 (DR1). Now the entire astronomical community can access the data collected by Apertif in its first year of observing, which started on 1 July 2019.
First direct detection of a brown dwarf with a radio telescope
Astronomers at ASTRONÂ have discovered a brown dwarf with LOFAR. The discovery of the object dubbed Elegast, opens up a new path that uses radio telescopes to discover faint objects that are close-cousins of Jupiter-like exoplanets.
People of ASTRON: David Prinsloo
In People of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. This time Dr. David Prinsloo talks about his work at ASTRON.
People of ASTRON: Bernard Duah Asabere
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? This time we interview Dr. Bernard Duah Asabere, science operations & support officer at ASTRON.
First phase of DISTURB completed
S[&]T (Science [&] Technology), ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) and KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) have completed the design of DISTURB, a warning system for eruptions on the sun.