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Professor Minnaert measured elements in the Sun. Professor Oort proved that the Milky Way rotates. They demonstrated all of this from Earth. When Sputnik became the first satellite in space in 1957, the leading astronomers in the Netherlands were not about to be left behind…
It is now 65 years since SRON’s predecessors launched Dutch space research. We are marking this occasion throughout the year with the ‘The Story of SRON’ timeline on our website.
In October 1961, the Laboratory for Space Research was established in Utrecht. A year later, the Cosmic Radiation Working Group was set up in Leiden, whilst the Photometry Working Group was founded in Groningen in 1965.
Astronomers use far-infrared spectrometers to study the composition and movements of galaxies and gas clouds. Researchers from TU Delft, SRON, and the University of Cologne are therefore developing new spectrometers based on superconducting resonators, which split the colors of light. They have now made the frequencies to which the resonators are sensitive four times more accurate.
