{"id":21375,"date":"2026-11-13T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/?p=21375"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:06:46","slug":"lofar-reveals-the-low-frequency-radio-sky-in-unprecedented-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/lofar-reveals-the-low-frequency-radio-sky-in-unprecedented-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>LOFAR reveals the low-frequency radio sky in unprecedented detail!<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An international team led by Leiden University has produced the sharpest and deepest low-frequency radio image yet, detecting almost 63,000 radio sources across a region of the sky 25 times the size of the full Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on 200 hours of observations and cutting-edge data-processing techniques, this remarkable achievement opens new opportunities to study distant galaxies, star formation and supermassive black-hole jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also demonstrates the scientific potential of <strong>LOFAR2.0<\/strong>, paving the way for even more sensitive and wider-field observations in the era of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the scientific publication: to be published in A&amp;A (<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2611.06152\">archive<\/a>)<br>ASTRON press release: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astron.nl\/astronomers-deliver-the-sharpest-and-deepest-view-yet-of-the-low-frequency-radio-sky\/\">here<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image Credit: Three galaxies with radio emission. On the left, a compact source whose radio emission originates from active star formation. In the center, a radio jet with a bright core caused by a black hole. On the right, a curved jet. Credit: De Jong et al.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by Leiden University has produced the sharpest and deepest low-frequency radio image yet, detecting almost 63,000 radio sources across a region of the sky 25 times the size of the full Moon. Based on 200 hours of observations and cutting-edge data-processing techniques, this remarkable achievement opens new opportunities to study distant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21377,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375\/revisions\/21377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}