18 Nov 2024
🏳️🌈 Today is International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM. We celebrate and recognize the contributions, challenges, and aspirations of individuals within the LGBTQIA+ community who are making strides in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and we strive to be an inclusive organization with a working environment in which everyone feels safe, heard, and understood. 🔭🧪👩🔬👨💻🌈
#LGBTQIASTEMday
14 Nov 2024
🌌 Radio signals from stars reveal magnetic storms & "space weather" on exoplanets! 🌠 These signals help us study solar bursts, auroras, and magnetic star-planet interactions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02405-6
#Radioastronomy #Exoplanets #SpaceWeather
11 Oct 2024
Even when our #LOFAR telescope is busy getting an upgrade, it is still reaching new milestones. According to the NASA/SAO Astrophysics Data System, the overview paper ‘LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray’ has reached over 2,000 citations!
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A...556A...2V/abstract
11 Oct 2024
ASTRON/JIVE strives to be an organisation in which everyone can be themselves. We try to be a welcoming environment for the LGBTQIA+ community; we unequivocally support the right of everyone to openly express their sexual orientation or gender identity. #ComingOutDay