News Overview
Join the ASTRON/JIVE Summer Student Programme 2013
ASTRON and JIVE announce the availability of a limited number of grants for their 2013 Summer Student Programme.
Black holes – no place left to hide!
Wide-field observations with a worldwide network of radio telescopes have uncovered black holes residing in the centre of dust obscured galaxies.
ASTRON engineer promoted on system design LOFAR telescope
Jaap Bregman is defending his thesis ‘System Design and Wide-field Imaging Aspects of Synthesis Arrays with Phased Array Stations’ on 14 December.
Science in the Netherlands: ASTRON in ‘Experiment NL’
The new magazine Experiment NL features articles about ASTRON projects and interviews with astronomers from ASTRON.
Procurement telescope cabins awarded to Dutch company
Recently, the European public procurement of the APERTIF Telescope Cabins has been completed.
Dish Dwingeloo radio telescope back on tower
This Monday 19 November, the company Wagenborg Nedlift from Groningen will put the dish of the Dwingeloo telescope back onto its tower.
Super-massive black hole inflates giant bubble
Astronomers have produced one of the best images ever made at the lowest frequencies of giant bubbles produced by a super-massive black hole.
European Advanced Grant for ASTRON astronomer
The ERC has awarded an Advanced Grant to prof. dr. Morganti, head of the Astronomy Group at ASTRON and professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute.
Official launch ASTRON & IBM Center for Exascale Technology
On Wednesday 17 October, the official kick off of the ´ASTRON & IBM Center for Exascale Technology’ in Drenthe takes place
Over 400 visitors at re-opening Milky Way path
Over 400 people visited the Milky Way path on Sunday 7 October. During this Weekend of Science, ASTRON and Universe Awareness organised a number of activities.
NWO Vrije Competitie Award for Pulsar Timing with LOFAR
The ASTRON Pulsar Group and a set of international collaborators, has been awarded an NWO Vrije Competitie grant to hire a 3-year post-doctoral researcher.
ASTRON evaluated as excellent by international experts
ASTRON has been judged as ‘excellent’ by a high-level panel headed-up by Prof. C. Cesarsky. The institute was awarded top marks.