This infographic explains how LOFAR treats data collected by its stations.
LOFAR is the first radio telescope of its size, wherein tens of thousands of small antenna elements are used instead of a few big dishes, as was more common in radio astronomy. All these antennas generate enormous amounts of data 24/7.
Although the saying goes ‘lightning never strikes the same place twice’, in fact it often does. Why it does so however, has long remained a mystery, but in 2019 a team of scientists led by the University of Groningen (RUG) used LOFAR to shed light on this matter.
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) will invest 12 million euros in FuSE: an initiative of research institutes Nikhef and ASTRON to ensure future data capacity exists for science in particle physics and radio astronomy.
In line with the advice from the Dutch government, the management of ASTRON and JIVE has decided to take measures to minimise the risk of coronavirus infection.
The international engineering consortium tasked with designing the SKA-low has completed its work after six years of international collaboration.
In Westerbork is in 2019 de upgrade van één van de snelste en meeste gevoelige radiotelescopen ter wereld voltooid.
Scientists are asking for the public’s help to find the origin of hundreds of thousands of galaxies that have been discovered by the largest radio telescope ever built: LOFAR.
Jason Hessels has been awarded an NWO Vici grant for his project entitled "AstroFlash: probing the extremes of the Universe at high time and spatial resolution''.