Prof Peter Gallagher, Head of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS) and the director of DIAS Dunsink Observatory has been elected as the new Chair of the LOFAR ...

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The European Low Frequency Array of radio telescopes is performing Breakthrough Listen's first-ever search at megahertz radio frequencies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

LOFAR space survey used the device to capture a new mesmerizing image of the blank space filled with white dots that are black holes and not the usual stars, suns, and moons. The focus of the study is ...

More than 20,000 radio antennas will soon connect over the Internet to scan largely unexplored radio frequencies, hunting for the first stars and galaxies and potentially signals of extraterrestrial ...

A powerful new telescope is allowing an international team of scientists to have their "best-ever look" at pulsars -- rapidly rotating neutron stars created when massive stars die. A powerful new ...

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