Prof. Raffaella Morganti, has received a knighthood awarded to her by President Giorgio Napolitano and presented to her by Dr. Francesco Azzarello.
Prof. Raffaella Morganti, has received a knighthood awarded to her by President Giorgio Napolitano and presented to her by Dr. Francesco Azzarello.
Heino Falcke (Radboud University of Nijmegen and ASTRON) investigates the nature of black holes and the gas jets in their vicinity.
An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world's best.
On Friday 25 April, Prof. Arnold van Ardenne, connected to ASTRON and inhabitant of Assen (Drenthe), received a decoration by mayor Mrs. C. Abbenhues of Assen.
During the national Girlsday on Thursday 24 April, girls from ages 14-15 will visit the astronomical institutes of ASTRON, JIVE and NOVA in Dwingeloo.
On Wednesday 9 April ASTRON, the University of Hamburg and Bielefeld University will sign a contract for construction of a new German station for the ILT.
Nobel Prize winner prof. Joseph Hooton Taylor is honorary guest at the reopening ceremony of the restored Dwingeloo Radio Telescope on Saturday 5 April.
A team of astronomers presented the exciting discovery of a black hole that has been blasting out a powerful release of energy for over 10,000 years.
Herschel has discovered massive elliptical galaxies in the nearby Universe containing plenty of cold gas, even though the galaxies fail to produce new stars
An international team of astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has discovered a pulsar that is orbited by two white dwarf stars.