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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

An international team of astronomers have clubbed together to make the startling discovery and find almost a third of a million unseen galaxies. More than 200 astronomers from 18 countries worked ...

The €100m Low Frequency Radio Array (LOFAR) telescope, which was officially opened in June, has released its first radio image showing a close up of a quasar – a star-like object that is thought to be ...

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 ...