A powerful new telescope designed and built by ASTRON is allowing an international team of scientists to have their “best-ever look” at pulsars.

On Wednesday 6 April, ASTRON will demonstrate the first qualified monitoring facility for the Galileo navigation system to TAS-I and ESA.

ASTRON has demonstrated the ability to multi-task astronomical observations by pointing one telescope in two completely different directions simultaneously.

The signals from antenna stations of LOFAR have been simultaneously combined together in the LOFAR BlueGene/P supercomputer.

Dutch school teacher reveals Hubble Speace Telescope images of Hanny’s voorwerp, a space oddity

ASTRON astronomer Marijke Haverkorn winner of the National Science Quiz 2010!

Marijke Haverkorn is competing in the 17th edition of the National Science Quiz with two other scientists on Sunday 26 December against a team of journalists.

Astronomers at ASTRON have demonstrated the feasibility of a new receiver technology that will have a great impact on radio astronomy.

Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star yet found, a discovery with strong and wide-ranging impacts across several fields of physics and astrophysics.

The Open Day 2010 of ASTRON, JIVE and the NOVA Optical/Infrared group at ASTRON, held on Sunday 24 October at the Westerbork telescope, was a big success.

A European team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far.

The story of the discovery of ‘Hanny’s Voorwerp’ has been made into an American comic book.