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ASTRON is the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. Our mission is to make discoveries in radio astronomy happen. We develop new and innovative technologies, operate world-class radio astronomy facilities, and pursue fundamental astronomical research.
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An international research team led by @astrosanne.bsky.social at ASTRON, identify a mystifying Long-Period Transient with 100% polarized radio emission, suggesting new type of cosmic radio source: www.astron.nl/astronomers-...
Astronomers uncover white dwarf system emitting bright radio pulses with strange rhythm | ASTRON
Researchers identify a mystifying Long-Period Transient with 100% polarized radio emission, suggesting new type of cosmic radio source. A team of astronomers at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for…
www.astron.nl
July 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Using the Westerbork radio telescope, astronomers have discovered two dozen of the unexplained Fast Radio Bursts and discovered their origins! youtu.be/cB_9s7vUVFY

#Science #FastRadioBursts #Astronomy #ASTRON #JoerivanLeeuwen
Origins of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Revealed
YouTube video by AstronNL
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January 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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We are very proud of Dr. Antonia Rowlinson for receiving an ERC Consolidator Grant for her research on short radio flashes.
www.astron.nl/using-short-...
Using short radio flashes to probe the remnants of neutron star mergers | ASTRON
What happens after neutron stars merge? Dr. Antonia Rowlinson has received an ERC Consolidator Grant to find an answer to that fundamental question.
www.astron.nl
December 4, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Having fun at the Past, Present, Future conference, celebrating 75 years of @astronnl.bsky.social. Lots of amazing talks about the early and risky days of LOFAR and WSRT.
November 22, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Today is International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM. We celebrate and recognize the contributions, challenges, and aspirations of individuals within the LGBTQIA+ community who are making strides in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 🔭🧪👩‍🔬👨‍💻🌈
#LGBTQIASTEMday
November 18, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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🌌 Radio signals from stars reveal magnetic storms & space weather on exoplanets! 🌠 These signals help us study solar bursts, auroras, and magnetic star-planet interactions.
@AstroJoeC is 1st author of this paper, explaining more about it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Exoplanets #SpaceWeather
Radio signatures of star–planet interactions, exoplanets and space weather - Nature Astronomy
The maturation of low-frequency radio astronomy instruments has further opened the magnetic environment of stars to investigation, yielding indications of star–planet interactions and coronal mass eje...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Commiserations to my American colleagues. Note that we are hiring a Bell Burnell Fellow at @astronnl.bsky.social. Please reach out if you have any questions! aas.org/jobregister/...
Bell Burnell Fellowship | American Astronomical Society
ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, is proud to invite applicants to apply for the Bell Burnell Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is named in honour, and with support of, Dame...
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November 6, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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Excited to announce the upcoming conference: “Beyond Earth: Lunar and Space Radio Missions”. The conference is set to take place May 12-15, 2025, at @astronnl.bsky.social , and is sponsored by the Breakthrough Initiative. Save the date!
November 8, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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It is Astrofest for @astronnl.bsky.social/JIVE today! We get together once-a-year and discuss about what motivates us (whether that is a particular science problem or their hobbies).
November 14, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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Even when our #LOFAR telescope is busy getting an upgrade, it is still reaching new milestones. According to the NASA/SAO Astrophysics Data System, the overview paper ‘LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray’ has reached over 2,000 citations!
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26...
Background image with stars and nebulas. In the front a cutout of the LOFAR radio telescope superterp and around it drawings of papers. In the front center the number 2,000.
October 11, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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ASTRON/JIVE strives to be an organisation in which everyone can be themselves. We try to be a welcoming environment for the LGBTQIA+ community; we unequivocally support the right of everyone to openly express their sexual orientation or gender identity. #ComingOutDay
October 11, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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Great to have the Breakthrough group here visiting @astronnl.bsky.social. S. Pete Worden gave a great overview of the amazing technosignature work being done by the team. #seti
September 24, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Bezoekers vanuit het zuiden aan onze open dag komende zondag opgelet: er vinden wegwerkzaamheden plaats. Volg daarom niet blindelings je navigatiesysteem, maar let goed op de borden, die je een alternatieve route naar Dwingeloo geven. #WvdW24
www.gemeentewesterveld.nl/Alle_onderwe...
October 3, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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🌌 #SpaceX's 2nd gen Starlink satellites are leaking up to 32 times more unintended radio waves than the 1st gen, potentially blinding telescopes like
#LOFAR and jeopardizing our understanding of the Universe!
#Starlink #RadioInterference
www.astron.nl/starlink-sat...
Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations | ASTRON
Observations with the LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) radio telescope last year showed that first generation Starlink satellites emit unintended radio waves that can hinder astronomical observations.
www.astron.nl
September 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Many ASTRON researchers make use of #AstroPy and some have also contributed to its development. In our opinion this is a well-deserved award to all those around the world who have contributed to it. Congratulations! 🎉
aas.org/press/astrop...
Astropy Collaboration to Receive 2025 Berkeley Prize | American Astronomical Society
The Astropy Collaboration will receive the 2025 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy for the creation of an open-source ecosystem of interoperable as...
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September 17, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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We are very proud of @astrojoe.bsky.social for having been awarded such a prestigious research grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Way to go, Joe!
#ERCStG
astrojoe.bsky.social Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · Sep 5
I am incredibly lucky and privileged to announce that I have been awarded an ERC starting grant! I will be using it to discover the space weather of other worlds using radio telescopes. #ERCStG
September 5, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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Tomorrow at 8 pm, ASTRON’s André Gunst will be giving a lecture in Enschede about the search for the Big Bang. The lecture is hosted by the Qua Art-Qua Science foundation. Interested in learning more about this? Attend the lecture for free!
www.qaqs.org/nieuw/wp-con...
Inviation for the lecture. At the top the title 'QAQS - Qua Art-Qua Science, followed by a despcription of the lecture subject and lecturer and the date and time and location of the lecture. The invitation is in Dutch. On the background you can see an image of the LOFAR superterp, the core of the LOFAR telescope, of which lecturer André Gunst is the system architect.
September 2, 2024 at 8:08 AM
astronnl.bsky.social
We're a participant in #SPECTRUM, a project funded by the @ec.europa.eu to deliver a Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda and a Technical Blueprint for a European compute and data continuum. To help the project, please fill in the survey: www.spectrumproject.eu/article/spec...
SPECTRUM+JENA Survey on the Future of Scientific Computing
SPECTRUM  and the JENA Computing Initiative are conducting a survey to understand current best practices and future needs in large-scale and data-intensive scientific computing.
www.spectrumproject.eu
August 26, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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We're very proud to have received such high grades from the Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP) committee!
www.astron.nl/top-marks-fo...
Top marks for ASTRON | ASTRON
ASTRON has been assessed by the Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP) committee as a research institute that produces excellent research both on astronomy and in technology and innovations.
www.astron.nl
August 22, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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It's #womenastronomersday! Astronomy owes a great deal to women astronomers, who have made and were essential in some of the greatest discoveries. www.astron.nl/women-astron...
Women Astronomers Day 2024 | ASTRON
Today, August 1st, marks Women Astronomers Day. Throughout history women astronomers have played a vital role in the development of astronomy and have made important astronomical discoveries.
www.astron.nl
August 1, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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We are happy to share on behalf of LOFAR ERIC that Dr. Michiel van Haarlem has been appointed as the new #LOFAR #ERIC Executive Director.
Michiel van Haarlem appointed new LOFAR ERIC Executive Director - LOFAR ERIC
The LOFAR ERIC Council has appointed Dr. Michiel van Haarlem as the new Executive Director of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), established by the European Commission in December...
www.lofar.eu
July 10, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Yesterday marked International Women in Engineering Day. We at ASTRON are very proud of our women engineers. Two of those are Ágnes Mika and Paula Fusiara.
www.astron.nl/internationa...
#INWED2024
International Women in Engineering Day | ASTRON
Yesterday marked International Women in Engineering Day. We at ASTRON are very proud of our women engineers. Two of those are Ágnes Mika and Paula Fusiara.
www.astron.nl
June 24, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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Director of @astronnl.bsky.social, Jessica Dempsey, asks:
💬 What makes our data so expensive?
💬 What are we paying for?

Turns out, whiskey can help us understand. 🥃 📊

Time (in barrels) + processing (distilling) = can our planet continue to afford this carbon footprint? #SPIEastro
A speaker wearing a blue shirt and orange pants is presenting on stage in an auditorium. The slide behind the speaker shows a photo of whiskey barrels with the text "What are we paying for, with a good whiskey?" and "Good distillation processing... and time."
June 20, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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If you happen to be near Yokohoma, be sure to visit us at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation event, currently taking place! Come look at some of the finest astronomical engineering the Netherlands have to offer. #SPIEastro @spie.org
June 19, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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On 4 June, #LOFAR was officially welcomed to the #ERIC family at the Research Infrastructures Conference in Brussels. Today we celebrate this momentous milestone.
www.astron.nl/dailyimage/m...
#LOFARERIC
June 10, 2024 at 7:49 AM