[3] NOVA is involved in, among other things, distributing funds for hiring PhD students, as well as communicating astronomical research results to the press, the general public and primary and secondary education.
NOVA also organizes the annual autumn school in which every astronomical PhD student participates at least once.
NOVA possesses three inflatable mobile planetariums that visit approximately 200 primary and secondary schools annually, reaching about 30,000 students per year.
After an initial stop in activities during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands, NOVA resumed classroom visits with a high quality flat screen, pending resumption of the inflatable technique.
Among recent discoveries made by NOVA astronomers, one pertains to NGC 2005 which is a spherical globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).