ASTRON Astronomers Joeri van Leeuwen and Jason Hessels won the ‘Enlighten Your Research’ competition of SURFNet.

Astronomy can produce fascinating and unexpected results: a completely new nature reserve resulting from the building of a telescope.

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.

The Spacegirls from Assen, have won the national space competition for high school students, called CanSat.

Discovery of radio supernova SN 2008iz in the nearby starburst galaxy M82

As part of an international team of astronomers, ASTRON astronomers Jason Hessels and Joeri van Leeuwen have discovered a unique binary star system.

Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date.

RadioNet FP7 has grown, now involving 26 partners from 13 different countries, contributing effort to 18 independent work packages.

Radio telescopes around the world will conduct a nearly continuous 33-hour observation of three quasars today and tomorrow.

Europe’s 20 year plan for astronomy was unveiled on 25 November 2008 by the ASTRONET consortium at the Academy of Sciences, Paris, France.

New observations made by radio telescopes have finally revealed thenature of the bizarre object known as “Hanny’s voorwerp” (SDSSJ094103.80+344334.2).