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-...

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

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.

🏳️‍🌈 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 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).

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 www.gemeentewesterveld.nl/Alle_onderwe...

🌌 #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

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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

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. npo.nl/start/serie/...