The European Space Agency ESA has given the green light for the realisation of the space telescope PLATO, which will search for exoplanets from 2026 onwards. SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research will test and characterise 8 of the 26 cameras for PLATO. In addition, SRON will develop models that can extract information from PLATO’s …
An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk and very little in the north-west. The astronomers suspect that multiple stars-to-be share the same star formation disk, but the precise process is still …
Where do the chemical elements that we are made up of come from? SRON researcher Francois Mernier investigated this during his PhD research by measuring the composition of huge hot gas clouds in space more accurately than ever before. On Wednesday 31 May, Mernier will defend his PhD thesis on the subject at Leiden University. …
ATTENTIE deelnemers: wegens grote belangstelling wijken we met het symposium en de receptie uit naar het Marinus Ruppertgebouw. Geregistreerden worden per mail op de hoogte gesteld. Als midden- of kleinbedrijf samen met instituten werken aan wetenschap, hoe gaat dat? Wat zijn de ervaringen en waar liggen de kansen voor samenwerking? SRON Netherlands Institute for Space …
Aerosols – small particles in the atmosphere – can cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight back to space but also warm the Earth by absorbing sunlight. Researchers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have combined different satellite measurements to determine to what extent aerosols reflect or absorb light, …
The XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, carrying two Reflection Grating Spectrometers developed by SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, was launched in 1999. It is orbiting earth since then. Its mission is to study high-energy phenomena in the Universe, such as black holes and neutron stars. When the telescope moves between specific target it stills collects scientific …
The large cosmic web structure of matter has once again revealed a bit more of itself to researchers. Against expectations, it appears that the filament between the two big clusters of galaxies Abell 399 and Abell 401 is more like a flat pancake than a cylindrical thread. A sudden temperature transition also seems to indicate …
Detector-array the size of a chip at the end of its holder, on left thumb. SRON is one of the leading institutes in the development of the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) for X-ray space telescope ATHENA, to be launched in 2028. X-IFU will be a 2-D imaging camera annex spectrograph that is cooled to …
New knowledge emerging for climate science and industry Atmospheric scientists at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research will use the Dutch satellite instrument TROPOMI for the worldwide detection of methane leakages. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is released during the extraction of coal, oil and gas. A research proposal for this initiative by professor …
Important obstacle stardust cameras overcome Fourier phase grating splits terahertz signal into eight beams Research into interstellar atoms, molecules and molecular clouds can now make huge advances in the coming years thanks to rapid technological developments. An important intermediate step for the development of a supersensitive camera for research into this interstellar medium has now …
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