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ASTRON is responsible for the operations of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) and the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR).

Astronomy

The astronomical research at ASTRON is closely aligned with the strengths of our facilities LOFAR and WSRT-APERTIF.

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ASTRON is the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and is part of the Institutes organisation of NWO.
STORIES
Humans of ASTRON
Published by the editorial team, 1 December 2020
Humans of ASTRON: Lesley Goudbeek

In Humans of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. Lesley Goudbeek has been design engineer at ASTRON since 2013.

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Humans of ASTRONNews
Published by the editorial team, 17 November 2020
Humans of ASTRON: Harish Vedantham

In Humans 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.

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AstronomyNewsWSRT-APERTIF
Published by the editorial team, 16 November 2020
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.

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AstronomyNewsWSRT-APERTIF
Published by the editorial team, 11 November 2020
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.

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First direct detection of a brown dwarf with a radio telescope
Published by the editorial team, 9 November 2020
Humans of ASTRON: David Prinsloo
Published by the editorial team, 20 October 2020
Humans of ASTRON: Bernard Duah Asabere
Published by the editorial team, 6 October 2020
First phase of DISTURB completed
Published by the editorial team, 25 September 2020
Humans of ASTRON: Ágnes Mika
Published by the editorial team, 22 September 2020
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DAILY IMAGE
National Geographic Prize Photo

© Robert van der Meer

Local photographer Robert van der Meer from Assen has won the National Geographic Photo Competition 2020, in the category "wildlife". His hunting-ground is the protected central area of the Europe-wide LOFAR radio telescope, between Exloo and Buinen. Last September he spotted a "waterral", a shy bird that is rare in the Netherlands.

His success is entirely consistent with the ASTRON Mission Statement, "to make discoveries happen".

Robert's prize consists of a smartphone and a year's subscription to the National Geographic magazine. But what he values most of all is that his picture will be published in the December issue.

EVENTS

Applied RF technology course

Mon 17 May 2021 - Thu 20 May 2021

The RF course is an excellent introduction for Digital / Analog engineers who are or will be involved in the development of RF systems.

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CAREERS

Latest tweets

ASTRON@ASTRON_NL·
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The Dutch astronomy magazine @ZenitNL devoted an article to our solar radio telescope DISTURB. You can read the article here:
https://bit.ly/3qhJFbf

ASTRON@ASTRON_NL·
24 Nov 1331161064252256256

We've made a new video of our walking route the #Melkwegpad.
https://youtu.be/UBBH7rUJOk8 via @YouTube

ASTRON@ASTRON_NL·
23 Nov 1330815369037144066

Daily image of the week: DR1. The Apertif imaging team has released science data from the first year of science operations of WSRT-Apertif, which can now be accessed by the scientific community.
https://bit.ly/370W3Uf
#radioastronomy #DR1

ASTRON@ASTRON_NL·
18 Nov 1329012562772496384

In about half an hour, at 12.15, ASTRON researcher @AJBoonstra will be live in the Dutch radio programme 'Zoek het uit!' on @RTVDrenthe to answer some questions about the Westerbork synthesis radio telescope. You can tune in here: https://www.rtvdrenthe.nl/radio
#WSRT #radioastronomy

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