02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... demonstration of technology that paves the way for future radio instruments in space,” said Albert-Jan Boonstra of ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. The unfolding of one of the three antennas. Image: Marc Klein...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
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March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... D (1995) A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star. Nature 378:355-359 2 Tinetti G, Encrenaz T & Coustenis A. Astron Astrophys Rev (2013) 21: 63. doi:10.1007/s00159-013-0063-6 3 Janson M, et al. (2010) Spatially resolved spectroscopy of the...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
... 910-4. 10 Gazenko OG, Schulzhenko EB, Turchaninova VF, Egorov AD. Central and regional hemodynamics in prolonged spaceflight. Acta Astronáutica. 1988; 17:173-79. 11 Henry WL, Epstein SE, Griffith JM, Goldstein RE, and Redwood DR. Effect of prolonged...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
... antenna. A type of aperture array antenna that SKA will use. Image: Swinburne Astronomy Productions/ICRAR/U. Cambridge/ASTRON.
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... the cause behind the unusual radio signals. According to the team’s research, headed by Harish Vedantham based at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and published today in Nature Astronomy, the star’s radio emissions...
