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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…

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-...

Origins of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Revealed YouTube video by AstronNL

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

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.

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-...

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.

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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

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...

🌌 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

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/...

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!

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).

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.

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...

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

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

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
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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.

🌌 #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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

We're very proud to have received such high grades from the Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP) committee!
www.astron.nl/top-marks-fo...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

Jekels Jacht | NPO Start Diederik Jekel herhaalt belangrijke experimenten uit onze succesvolle wetenschappelijke geschiedenis.

Yesterday, science journalist Diederik Jekel reconstructed the first Dutch radio broadcast in #JekelsJacht. For this episode he visited the Dwingeloo radio telescope (24:55), where he talked with Jan van Muijlwijk (mis-identified as Tammo Jan Dijkema) and Gemma Janssen.
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