News Overview
Astronomical airplane trails do not evade but lighten up
An international team of astronomers led by Francesco de Gasperin (Leiden University, the Netherlands) has witnessed an unexpected phenomenon in a merger of a two clusters of galaxies.
ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space – Dashing Hopes that Molecule May be Marker of Life
Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a comet.
ASTRON newest member Innovation Cluster Drachten
ASTRON newest member Innovation Cluster Drachten. ASTRON contributes to groundbreaking technologies.
Mystery solved: rare cosmic high energie particles come from outside our galaxy
The Pierre Auger Collaboration reports observational evidence demonstrating that high energy cosmic rays come from much further away than from our own Galaxy.
First Fast Radio Burst detected with Apertif
The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS), the new, high-speed, wide-field radio camera for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, has for the first time detected a bright Fast Radio Burst on 31 August 2017.
LOFAR radio telescope discovers record-breaking pulsar
Astronomers have discovered two rapidly rotating radio pulsars with LOFAR in the Netherlands by investigating unknown gamma-ray sources uncovered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Archaeology of active galaxies across the electromagnetic spectrum
The timescales over which galaxies form and evolve are outside the reach of human life. Thus, astronomers need to use indirect methods to derive the history of galaxies.
LOFAR Ireland officially launched
New antenna station further increases sensitivity of the world’s largest radio telescope.
SKA signs Big Data cooperation agreement with CERN
SKA Organisation and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, today signed an agreement formalising their growing collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing.
The Broad Impact of Low Frequency Observing – Conference
What are the major achievements and results of low frequency radio telescopes far? And what will be their science impact?
SKA Engineering Meeting 2017
Over 300 engineers and scientists from 17 countries participate in the 2017 SKA Engineering Meeting, which takes place from 12 – 16 June in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Dome Symposium
From novel algorithms that are an order of magnitude more efficient than state of the art to extremely dense and power-efficient water cooled microservers: Dome shows paths towards exa-scale in radio astronomy.