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News22/07/2025

Dutch consortium receives funding to support development PRIMA’s far-infrared detector

SRON Space Mission TANGO

News09/07/2025

Dutch partners start construction of TANGO climate satellite

NewsNews27/06/2025

Ilse Aben wins Stevin Prize for detecting large methane leaks with TROPOMI

News25/06/2025

New methane satellite data supporting waste emission mitigation now publicly available

NewsNews19/06/2025

Lost and possibly found: a third of the normal matter in the Universe is missing

NewsNews06/06/2025

ENW-M1 grant for cloud-aerosol interaction

News28/05/2025

Pastoor Schmeitsprize for Yamila Miguel

News14/05/2025

Supermassive black hole wind appears in bullet-like gas clumps

News12/05/2025

ENW-XS grant for simultaneous readout of a thousand X-ray detectors

NewsNews24/04/2025

SRON pinpoints large brief methane releases

News04/04/2025

Astronomers finally discover double white dwarf set to explode into supernova

News26/03/2025

Name SRON becomes acronym: Space Research Organisation Netherlands

Artist impression van de kern van het Centaurus Cluster

News14/02/2025

XRISM finds evidence for gas flows in galaxy cluster

Ariel-Consortium-Meeting

Events13/02/2025

Ariel Consortium Meeting

News07/02/2025

Duo of Satellites Detect Large Methane Emission from Ethiopian Volcano

News06/02/2025

Dutch satellite instrument SPEXone produces aerosol world map

News16/01/2025

Annual carbon monoxide emissions measured from Europe’s 21 largest steel plants

News12/01/2025

Scientific goals NewAthena: from stars and black holes to the cosmic web

News13/12/2024

TRAPPIST planet dissected: volcanic rock or atmosphere full of CO2 and haze

News10/12/2024

XMM-Newton celebrates 25 years in space

News02/12/2024

White paper: NL-US collaboration in climate research from space

News13/11/2024

From atoms to the cosmos: ‘Everything in the universe is connected’

News12/11/2024

PRELIFE consortium receives NWA grant to study origins of life

News12/11/2024

Gold antenna increases sensitivity detectors for proto-planetary systems

News10/11/2024

Golden antenna improves sensitivity detectors for proto planetary systems

News29/10/2024

Lightweight centimeter-sized terahertz spectrometer

News10/10/2024

Kick-off Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe

News04/10/2024

PRIMA selected as candidate for NASA’s Probe mission

News19/09/2024

First XRISM results: ten-billion-degree supernova remnant and dust donut at 0.1 light years from black hole

News04/09/2024

SRON and partners develop vibration damping for cold optics of the Einstein Telescope

News23/08/2024

Pixels TROPOMI methane detector remain almost completely intact

News02/08/2024

Astrophysics in the lab: TES detectors measure X-rays from hot plasma

News29/07/2024

SRON to detect methane plumes for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service

News17/07/2024

Liquid crystal coronagraphs for crystal clear vision of a second Earth

News21/06/2024

Climate models give different predictions on sulfate aerosol formation

News07/06/2024

First map of outflows from nearby quasar I Zwicky 1

NewsNews30/05/2024

Jelle de Plaa wins SURF Research Support Championship Award

NewsNews27/05/2024

NWO grant for studying life cycle of stars and planets with GUSTO

News23/05/2024

NWO grant for detection of single photons from exoplanets

NewsNews16/05/2024

Webb data show hints of atmosphere around rocky exoplanet

NewsNews23/04/2024

SRON and Dutch climate envoy at World Energy Congress

NewsNews18/04/2024

Spanish King introduced to Dutch earth observation

NewsNews10/04/2024

PACE climate satellite releases first images

NewsNews08/03/2024

X-ray telescope XRISM officially starts observations

News03/03/2024

NOVA expands Mobile Planetarium project – SRON dome officially inaugurated

NewsNews01/03/2024

Balloon Telescope GUSTO lands on Antarctica after record-breaking flight

NewsNews22/02/2024

Two NWO-GO grants for aerosol research with PACE satellite

NewsNews21/02/2024

ESA selects Dutch satellite system for local emission monitoring

NewsNews08/02/2024

NASA launches climate satellite with Dutch aerosol instrument

NewsNews25/01/2024

Gravitational wave detector LISA officially adopted as ESA space mission

NewsNews09/01/2024

First XRISM images released

NewsNews31/12/2023

Balloon telescope GUSTO launched from Antarctica

News18/12/2023

Michael Wise appointed for second term as SRON director

NewsNews01/12/2023

‘Netherlands can now make a large difference: measuring methane to local scale’

NewsNews30/11/2023

Planet found that is too large for its parent star

UncategorisedNewsNews30/11/2023

COP28: Global projects for landfill methane reduction with satellite monitoring

NewsNews27/11/2023

Researchers call for Dutch leading role in global methane monitoring

NewsNews15/11/2023

James Webb discovers sand clouds on “cotton candy planet” WASP-107b

NewsNews07/11/2023

Ammonia indicator for planet formation history

03/11/2023

The Netherlands signs NASA agreements for effective cooperation in space

NewsNews30/10/2023

GUSTO arrived on Antarctica

NewsNews20/10/2023

Resolve instrument XRISM tested after launch: all lights are green

NewsNews19/09/2023

Methane super-emitters revealed weekly using satellites and machine learning

NewsNews07/09/2023

X-ray telescope XRISM successfully launched

NewsNews17/08/2023

Satellite observations African cities: carbon monoxide emissions deviate from inventories

NewsNews01/05/2023

Terri Brandt new head of SRON Astrophysics program

NewsNews21/04/2023

SRON’s Transition Edge Sensors demonstrate potential as axion detectors

NewsNews28/03/2023

Harvard and SRON join forces to open up TROPOMI data to broader community

NewsNews14/03/2023

Balloon telescope GUSTO ready for integration with gondola

NewsNews20/02/2023

Green light for Dutch contribution to LISA

NewsNews17/02/2023

New type of bolometer detector for far-infrared telescopes

NewsNews31/01/2023

ERC Consolidator Grant for studying interior of giant planets

News30/01/2023

NWO/NSO Grant for Burning Questions on Carbon Emissions

NewsNews11/11/2022

SRON participates in United Nations global methane detection system

News08/11/2022

The Global Methane Hub, SRON and GHGSat Launch World-first Project to Map Super-Emitting Landfills Globally

News02/11/2022

LOFAR antennas unveil giant glow of radio emission surrounding cluster of galaxies

NewsNews06/09/2022

Far-infrared detector KID reaches highest possible sensitivity

NewsNews30/08/2022

Far-infrared detector KID reaches highest possible sensitivity

NewsNews10/08/2022

Methane satellites find landfills with the same climate impact as several hundred thousand cars

NewsNews30/06/2021

Dozens of strong methane plumes identified in US Permian Basin