The National Science Agenda has awarded a 5 million euro grant to CORTEX – the Center for Optimal, Real-Time Machine Studies of the Explosive Universe.

For the first time ever, a stream of magnetic fields and relativistic electrons along a filament that connects the clusters of galaxies Abell 0399 and Abell 0401 has been identified.

Large spiral galaxies, such as our neighbour the Andromeda Galaxy, leave virtually no gas or dust particles unused during the formation of stars.

ASTRON, het Nederlands instituut voor radioastronomie, heeft samen met de Rabobank Het Drentse Land en de gemeente Westerveld de eerste Open Science Hub in Drenthe geopend.

The SKA’s SDP consortium has concluded its engineering design work, marking the end of five years’ work to design one of two supercomputers that will process the enormous amounts of data produced by the SKA’s telescopes.

New study reveals needle-like structures in positively charged lightning leaders

ASTRON congratulates JIVE with their contribution to the observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of distant galaxy Messier 87.

An international team of astrophysicists observed for the first time that the jet of a quasar is less powerful on long radio wavelengths than earlier predicted.

The Netherlands along with 6 other countries involved in the SKA Project have come together for the signature of the treaty establishing the intergovernmental organisation that will oversee the delivery of the worlds’ largest radio telescope.

An international team of more than 200 astronomers from 18 countries has published the first phase of a major new radio sky survey at unprecedented sensitivity using the LOFAR telescope.

On Monday 11 February, we acquired the new state of the art ‘brains’ for the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR).

The international CSP consortium has concluded its design work on the SKA, marking the end of five years’ work comprised of 11 signatory members from 8 countries with more than 10 additional participating organisations.