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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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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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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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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
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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