Somewhere between the galaxy clusters that dot the observable universe, enormous threads of hot, diffuse gas stretch across ...
Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...
An international team led by astronomers at ASTRON and the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used the LOFAR telescope, designed and constructed by ASTRON, to ...
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An international group of astronomers have succeeded in the first joint observations between the LOFAR stations in The Netherlands and Germany. This constitutes the “first light” of the LOFAR ...
A powerful new telescope is allowing an international team led by University of Manchester scientists to have their “best-ever look” at pulsars – rapidly rotating neutron stars created when massive ...
An international team led by astronomers at ASTRON and the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen have used the LOFAR telescope, designed and constructed by ASTRON, to make the deepest ...