LOFAR produces its sharpest, deepest low-frequency radio image, revealing 63,000 sources

An international team led by Leiden University has made the sharpest and most sensitive low-frequency radio image of the sky to date, using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). The image covers the ELAIS-N1 field, a region of the northern sky about 25 times the area of the full moon, and contains almost 63,000 radio sou…