News Overview
Energy loss gives unexpected insights in evolution of quasar jets
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.
Founding Members sign SKA Observatory treaty
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.
New sky map detects hundreds of thousands of unknown galaxies
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.
COBALT2.0 sets the stage for a fully multitasking LOFAR
On Monday 11 February, we acquired the new state of the art ‘brains’ for the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR).
International Central Signal Processor consortium concludes design work
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.
The Netherlands is going to monitor eruptions on the sun
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.
The Netherlands will partner to build the largest radio telescope in the world
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 has new institute advisory board
ASTRON’s new Institute Advisory board (“instituutsadviesraad” or IAR) met for the first time on 17 December 2018.
Proceedings third LOFAR Data Processing School published
As part of their Astrophysics and Space Science Library series, Springer has published the volume ‘Low Frequency Astronomy and the LOFAR observatory’.
First Dutch team involved in a moon landing
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 joins ESCAPE project to build open science cloud
ASTRON will participate in the ESCAPE project, that is part of the effort to build a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Cosmic serpent reveals new way massive stars die
Astronomers have discovered a unique binary star system containing a pair of massive ‘Wolf-Rayet’ stars: a kind believed to explode as supernovae.