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 …
SRON, TNO, ASTRON and NOVA have joined forces to show their latest innovations and technologies in the field of instrumentation for astronomy. The venue is the SPIE Astronomy, Telescopes and Instrumentation technical exhibition, in Amsterdam RAI, 1 to 6 July. The participating companies will be happy to present and explain their innovations to visitors, especially …
Eigenaren van een smartphone kunnen binnenkort zelf bijdragen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar fijnstof en andere aerosolen (kleine deeltjes) in de atmosfeer. Dit kan uiteindelijk leiden tot meer inzicht in onder andere klimaatverandering. Het instrument dat dit mogelijk maakt, iSPEX, dingt mee naar de Academische Jaarprijs en is door naar de finale. SRON is één van …
On Sunday 10 June 2012 the X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton has been 12,5 years in orbit. Over these 12.5 years many important discoveries were made and SRON played an important role. The RGS instrument built by SRON & partners was a key instrument in discovering problems with cooling flow models in clusters of galaxies, leading …
Thursday 14 June 2012 the Zernike Institute for Advanced materials, The Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, SRON and NOVA organize a research symposium. The symposium aims to highlight current science and technology research at the organizing institutes. It is a first step towards reviving and stimulating collaboration on science, technology research and application development. The ares of interest include …
{multithumb thumb_width=200} Black holes are extremely powerful and efficient engines that not only swallow up matter, but also return a lot of energy to the Universe in exchange for the mass they eat. When black holes attract mass they also trigger the release of intense X-ray radiation and power strong jets. But not all black …
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