Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

LOFAR detects a faint radio 'mini-halo' from 3.8 billion years ago, revealing how galaxy clusters evolved in the early ...

An early universe radio jet spanning an astonishing 200,000 light years has been discovered by the International Gemini ...

The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant mini-halo ever seen—10 billion light-years away—revealing that galaxy clusters ...

Amanda Wilber/LOFAR Surveys Team. Related article New sky survey reveals hundreds of thousands of galaxies. This data release was only 27% of the entire survey, Shimwell said.

LOFAR faces a significant obstacle avoided by space-based telescopes: the ionosphere. This outermost layer of the atmosphere forms a shell of electrons and charged particles around the Earth.

The LOFAR Superterp Is the Nerve Center of a Massive, State-of-the-Art Radio Telescope. By Atlas Obscura Contributor. Jan 07, 2016 12:30 PM. The superterp.

Amanda Wilber/LOFAR Surveys Team. Related article New sky survey reveals hundreds of thousands of galaxies. This data release was only 27% of the entire survey, Shimwell said.