News Overview
Possible Extragalactic Source of High-Energy Neutrinos
Coincidence of a highly energetic outburst of an active galactic nucleus with a neutrino event at PeV energy.
Variass to manufacture 64-Bit Microservers Developed by ASTRON and IBM
Yesterday it was announced that Variass will manufacture the first 26 64-bit Microservers for ASTRON and IBM.
LOFAR can now also be used as particle detector
An international team of astronomers have figured out radio signals that LOFAR captures when elementary particles from space collide with the Earth’s atmosphere.
SKA-linked telescopes follow up on LIGO gravitational waves announcement
Several weeks ago, physicists at The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves.
Mysterious cosmic radio bursts found to repeat
Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short-duration bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source which is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy.
New Fast Radio Burst discovery finds ‘missing matter’ in the Universe
An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes has for the first time managed to identify the location of a fast radio burst.
Michael Garrett accepted offer from the University of Manchester
Michael Garrett has accepted an offer to take up the position of the inaugural Sir Bernard Lovell Chair in Astrophysics and the Director of Astronomy and Astrophysics for the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
LOFAR to extend into Ireland
The world’s biggest connected radio telescope is about to become even bigger! LOFAR will expand into Ireland.
The “Jonge Akademie” chooses ten new members
Every year the Jonge Akademie (translated: Young Academy) selects ten new and talented scientists to strengthen its ranks.
South-Africa-Dutch SKA data science partnership seek to address big data conundrum
The visit to South Africa by Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte included a pivotal South African-Dutch data science partnership between key institutions from both countries.
135 chapters, 1200 contributors, 2000 pages of SKA science
The SKA Organisation released the new official SKA science book, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array
Good night, sleep tight: advanced alien civilisations rare or absent in the local Universe.
Sensitive new telescopes now permit astronomers to detect the waste heat that is expected to be a signature of advanced alien civilisations that can harness enormous energies on the scale of the stellar output of their own galaxy.