Image gallery
This page gives access to images from the LOFAR surveys. For more detail click on each thumbnail image. Images here are licensed under a CC-BY 3.0 licence and the original creators must be credited if the images are to be reproduced — see the individual images for credits.
We used the International LOFAR Telescope to simultaneously look at both the very ...
While the rest of the results use the LOFAR high band antenna, just above the FM ...
A galaxy-sized wind is revealed billowing out from a giant star factory, in a dust-enshrouded ...
Hercules A is powered by a supermassive black hole located at its centre,which feeds ...
A very distant galaxy where the jet is pointed along the line of sight, so we see ...
LOFAR observations reveal the structure of a distant galaxy whose light has been ...
The light from this galaxy originated when the Universe was only 2.6 billion years ...
The deepest LOFAR image ever made, in the region of sky known as
‘Elais-N1’, which ...
Images of radio galaxies from the deep LOFAR image of Elais-N1,
overlaid on an optical ...
Images of radio galaxies from the deep LOFAR image of Elais-N1,
overlaid on an optical ...
Images of radio galaxies from the deep LOFAR image of Elais-N1,
overlaid on an optical ...
Images of radio galaxies from the deep LOFAR image of Elais-N1,
overlaid on an optical ...
The large-scale structure of the radio galaxy NGC 326 overlaid on an optical image, ...
A montage of extended sources from the LoTSS Data Release 1. Credit: Tim Shimwell ...
Mingo et al. (2019) identified a large population of edge-brightened low-luminosity ...
A montage of low-power radio galaxies from the HETDEX region of the
LoTSS survey, ...
Sections of the LOFAR 150 MHz map of the ELAIS-N1 field (Sabater et al. 2021), illustrating ...
1/30th of the LoTSS DR1 sky area (roughly 15 square degrees), with the full moon
shown ...
The LOFAR surveys collaboration are preparing for their second public data release. ...
The giant FRII radio galaxy WNB 0313+683, discovered by Schoenmakers
and co-authors ...
The merging galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301. The cluster is
well-known for its giant ...
LOFAR images of a radio galaxy overlaid on an optical image of the sky. Credits: ...
LOFAR images of a radio galaxy overlaid on an optical image of the sky. Credits: ...
LOFAR images of a radio galaxy overlaid on an optical image of the sky. Credits: ...
This image shows M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. It is 15-35 million light ...
The spiral galaxy M51 in the HETDEX region. Credit: Tim Shimwell and
the LOFAR surveys ...
The nearby spiral galaxy M106 seen in an optical image, with LOFAR
radio emission ...
The giant radio galaxy J0349+7511, discovered in 2016 by Hunik and
Jamrozy, seen ...
The nearby spiral galaxy IC 342 seen with LOFAR. Radio emission comes
from the spiral ...
A head-tail radio galaxy, one of many found in the LOFAR surveys. Here a normal radio ...
A LOFAR image of the 'Moustache Galaxy', a mysterious structure
probably the result ...
The radio source B3 0157+405A as seen in the LoTSS wide-area survey.
Complex structure ...
The galaxy cluster Abell 1314 is located in Ursa Major at at distance of approximately ...
The galaxy cluster Abell 1314 is located in Ursa Major at at distance of approximately ...
This image shows how the LOFAR radio telescope opens a new view of the universe. ...
The radio galaxy 3C31, observed with LOFAR by Heesen et al (2018), is
shown in red ...