From today (August 11th) up until Friday the yearly Perseids meteor shower will have its peak. This phenomenon is not only interesting for amateur astronomers, professional astronomers will be observing them as well.
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In Humans of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. Who are the people behind the discoveries and innovations and also, who are the people that make sure that everything runs smoothly? In this second part of the series, we’ll be sharing the story of Jorrit Siebenga, who joined ASTRON in 2017 as research instrument maker.
Throughout the history of astronomy, women have played essential roles towards astronomical breakthroughs. In this article we highlight but a few of these women identified in history from 1600 to the modern era.
In Humans of ASTRON we share stories about the people at ASTRON. Who are the people behind the discoveries and innovations and also, who are the people that make sure that everything runs smoothly? In this second part of the series, we’ll be sharing the story of Emanuela Orrù, support scientist at ASTRON since 2012.
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New results from Rapthor v2.1, released on 4 December 2025!
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Rapthor is developed by David Rafferty and the Rapthor team and the number of ready pipelines is growing — it is one of at least seven processing pipelines that the Rapthor team is involved in.
The image covers approximately 4° (left to right) of the field P113+24, with the pointing centre toward the left side. Noise increases on the right side because primary-beam sensitivity is lower in that region.
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