📡 Low-Frequency Array

Netherlands · Europe · 52.91°N, 6.87°E

The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) is a large radio telescope, with an antenna network located mainly in the Netherlands, and spreading across 7 other European countries as of 2019. Originally designed and built by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, it was first opened by Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands in 2010, and has since been operated by ASTRON on behalf first of the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) partnership and now of the LOFAR ERIC by ASTRON.

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Quick facts

Country	Netherlands
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	52.91°N, 6.87°E · view on map

Low-Frequency Array is located in Netherlands, in Europe.

More radio telescopes in Netherlands

Dwingeloo Radio Observatory · EMBRACE (telescope) · Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope.

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