An early universe radio jet spanning an astonishing 200,000 light years has been discovered by the International Gemini ...

The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...

Abell 2255 is a cluster containing between 300 and 500 constituent galaxies, many of which are merging. It's located around 800 million light-years from Earth and spans around 16.3 million light-years ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

The jet is known as Quasar J1601+3102, and it was first spotted by astronomers using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). Researchers estimate that the jet spans nearly 200,000 light-years, more than ...

LOFAR will also contribute to UK and European preparations for the planned global next generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) ...

The LOFAR Superterp Is the Nerve Center of a Massive, State-of-the-Art Radio Telescope. By Atlas Obscura Contributor. Jan 07, 2016 12:30 PM. The superterp.

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 that is ...

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 wi… ...

LOFAR will use low-band antennas operating at 10–90 MHz and high-band devices operating between 110 and 250 MHz will allow scientists to look back to the formation of the first stars in the universe ...

The LOFAR data on which the images are based were obtained in a 6-hour synthesis on the night of January 29/30, 2011, and the evening of April 1, 2011, ...