ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) and S[&]T (Science [&] Technology) are starting the design of a solar radio telescope that directly detects eruptions on the sun.

ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, is excited that the Netherlands will partner in the construction and management of the largest radio telescope in the world, SKA.

ASTRON’s new Institute Advisory board (“instituutsadviesraad” or IAR) met for the first time on 17 December 2018.

As part of their Astrophysics and Space Science Library series, Springer has published the volume ‘Low Frequency Astronomy and the LOFAR observatory’.

The Chinese space agency will be launching the Chang’e 4 moon lander on Friday 7 December, hoping to make China the first country to land on the far side of the moon.

ASTRON will participate in the ESCAPE project, that is part of the effort to build a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Astronomers have discovered a unique binary star system containing a pair of massive ‘Wolf-Rayet’ stars: a kind believed to explode as supernovae.

Pulsar observations enable mass estimates for Ceres and other solar system objects

An international team of astronomers have discovered the slowest-spinning radio pulsar yet known.

A €3,450,000 NWO Investment Grant Large has been awarded to ASTRON by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in order to build and deploy DUPLLO: the Digital Upgrade for Premier LOFAR Low-band Observing.

With an innovative new type of receiver, called Apertif, the field of view of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been increased 37 times.

Early August, the renowned Space Studies Programme (SSP) from the International Space University visits ASTRON in Dwingeloo.