The WSRT is one of the most powerful radio observatories in the world. It enables astronomers to study a wide range of astrophysical problems: from pulsars to kinematics of nearby galaxies to the physics of black-holes.
The Radio Telescope Effelsberg is one of the largest fully steerable radio telescopes on earth. It is employed to observe pulsars, magnetic fields in galaxies, cold gas- and dust clusters, the sites of star formation, jets of matter emitted by black holes and the nuclei of distant far-off galaxies.