News Overview
Special prize for radio astronomy’s contribution to WiFi
John O’Sullivan from the Australian CSIRO has been awarded the Australian Prime Ministers Special Prize in Science for 2009.
Over 800 people visited Astronomy Day Dwingeloo
Yesterday, during the Astronomy Day Dwingeloo, over 800 people visited the Planetron, CAMRAS and ASTRON.
Planetron, CAMRAS & ASTRON organise Sterrendag Dwingeloo
Many interesting questions surrounding astronomy will be answered during the Sterrendag Dwingeloo (Star Day Dwingeloo).
ASTRON in Science magazine and Physics World
ASTRON has appeared in Science Magazine and Physics World with two articles about LOFAR.
LOFAR observes across borders
An international group of astronomers have succeeded in the first joint observations between the LOFAR stations in Exloo and Effelsberg.
Spacegirls present extraordinary space project at ASTRON
On Thursday 10 September, ASTRON welcomes Anne, Esther, Iris, Jessica, Malou, Mirthe and Sophie, from Assen.
ASTRON astronomers make light work of pulsars!
ASTRON Astronomers Joeri van Leeuwen and Jason Hessels won the ‘Enlighten Your Research’ competition of SURFNet.
ASTRON creates new nature reserve in Drenthe
Astronomy can produce fascinating and unexpected results: a completely new nature reserve resulting from the building of a telescope.
ASTRON’s new LOFAR telescope shows first fringes
A team of astronomers and engineers at ASTRON has successfully detected correlated interferometric radio signals from the sky with the first full-scale LOFAR stations.
Spacegirls win Dutch space competition CanSat
The Spacegirls from Assen, have won the national space competition for high school students, called CanSat.
An exploding star in an “exploding” galaxy
Discovery of radio supernova SN 2008iz in the nearby starburst galaxy M82
“Missing Link” reveals birth of a radio millisecond pulsar
As part of an international team of astronomers, ASTRON astronomers Jason Hessels and Joeri van Leeuwen have discovered a unique binary star system.