To map the entire cluster for this novel survey, the team spent 224 hours collecting radio images.

"We believe that the mechanism that 'turns on' these gigantic radio emissions is linked to the formation process of galaxy ...

Porphyrion, a colossal radio galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, spans an astonishing 23 million light-years—140 Milky Ways stacked end to end.

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a new pan-European radio astronomy facility, has started mapping the Universe at very low energy wavelengths, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum ...

In the quest to discover more about our Universe and the birth of stars and galaxies, a new UK telescope connected for the first time to others across Europe has delivered its first 'radio pictures'.

An international group of astronomers have succeeded in the first joint observations between the LOFAR stations in Exloo (The Netherlands) and Effelsberg (Germany). This constitutes the “first light” ...

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

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 ...