Air bubbles in old ice cores render proveResearchers from the Universiteit Utrecht, SRON and other international institutes have found that humans have contributed to the emission of the hothouse gas methane since the time of the Roman Empire. That is a lot sooner than researchers have always thought. The results appear on 4 October in …
{multithumb thumb_width=200} An international team of astronomers found that the building blocks for planets in a baby brother of our solar system probably formed under circumstances that closely resemble the circumstances in our early Solar System. The discovery suggests that a planetary system like ours can form around very different stars. The results are published …
{multithumb thumb_width=280} SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research will be opening its doors again to the public. On Sunday 7 oktober 2012 visitors are most welcome in Utrecht and on Sunday 21 oktober 2012 in Groningen. There will be prsentations, demonstrations, lectures and films on the latetst developments in space science. Children can enjoy a special programme. At both locations …
{multithumb thumb_width=300} Galaxies in the early universe grew fast by rapidly making new stars. Such prodigious star formation episodes, characterized by the intense radiation of the newborn stars, were often accompanied by fireworks in the form of energy bursts caused by the massive central black hole accretion in these galaxies. This discovery with the Herschel …
{multithumb thumb_width=250} With the help of the ALMA Band-9 receivers built by SRON and other parties, sugar molecules have been detected in the gas around a young Sun-like star. This is the first time sugar has been detected in the space around such a star. The discovery shows that the building blocks for life are …
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and the University of Utrecht lead a international group of scientists who urge the developed countries to contribute to a global greenhouse gas measurement network, in spite of the financial crises. Due to budget cuts with the American Earth System Research Laboratory this network is in danger of being dismantled. Sinds het begin van de jaren 80 …
An international evaluation committee has assessed SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research as ‘excellent’, the highest score that can be achieved. The committee was impressed, for example by how the institute had made use of the resources available in the period 2005-2010 to maintain and strengthen its leading national and international position in space research. …
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research has supplied the first space-qualified immersed gratings this week. These gratings will be the first in the world to be used in space. They will be placed in the TROPOMI instrument, which will survey air pollution and greenhouse gases from space from 2015 onwards. The high-tech gratings developed by …
{multithumb thumb_width=200} A partnership of Dutch research institutes and industry consisting of SRON, TNO, NOVA/ASTRON and Philips will construct a demonstration model of the ‘immersed grating’ for METIS. METIS is an advanced infrared camera and spectrometer that will gain maximum benefit from the large corrective capacity of the planned European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which …
{multithumb thumb_width=200} For the first time a clever new technique now lets astronomers study the atmosphere of an exoplanet in detail – even if it does not pass in front of its parent star. An international team with SRON-researcher Remco de Kok has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to catch the faint glow from the planet …
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