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Far-infrared detector KID reaches highest possible sensitivity

Compared to most wavelengths, astronomy has a blind spot on the far-infrared part of the spectrum. A...
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NewsNews10/08/2022

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

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NewsNews23/06/2022

Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone mounted on NASA’s climate satellite

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NewsNews30/05/2022

Jupiter turns out to be inhomogeneous; metallicity gives clues about origin

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First tests exoplanet hunter Plato in space conditions

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NewsNews19/04/2022

Space dust, asteroids and comets can account for all water on Mercury

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NewsNews03/03/2022

Berend Schuit wins Heinz Stoewer Space Award

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NewsNews23/02/2022

Fast and furious: A shock wave that extends for 6.5 million light years

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NewsNews01/02/2022

Satellites identify inactive flares as big methane emitters

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News06/01/2022

New method to study outflows from galactic centers in preparation for Athena

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News07/12/2021

Laatste ontbrekende puzzelstukje van botsingen tussen clusters van sterrenstelsels

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NewsNews23/11/2021

Satellite reveals Australian coal mines emit much more methane than expected based on national reporting

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NewsNews22/11/2021

MKID detectors turn out to have 100 times lower noise

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NewsNews17/11/2021

Bolometers operate at higher temperatures using new superconducting material

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News02/11/2021

Simultaneous readout of 60 bolometers for far-infrared space telescopes

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NewsNews02/11/2021

Simultaneous TES readout at level of Athena-like telescopes

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NewsNews29/10/2021

Accuracy limit TES detector less fundamental than assumed

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NewsNews29/10/2021

Electron pairs remain stable above superconducting temperature

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NewsNews18/10/2021

Black holes blow monumental bubbles spanning hundreds of thousands of lightyears

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NewsNews30/09/2021

Spectral resolution of superconducting single photon detectors more than doubled

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NewsNews28/09/2021

SRON and Nikhef receive ENW-M grant for development LISA photoreceivers

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NewsNews27/09/2021

Lack of massive black holes in telescope data is caused by bias

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NewsNews15/09/2021

Australian ‘Black Summer’ wildfires produced almost twice as much CO2 as all Australians in a year

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NewsNews31/08/2021

Astronomers find new clue that heavy stars don’t go supernova

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NewsNews08/08/2021

New phase grating technique for NASA’s GUSTO mission

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NewsNews28/07/2021

First detection of light from behind a black hole

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NewsNews23/07/2021

UvA appoints Michael Wise as professor by special appointment of Observational High-Energy Astrophysics

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NewsNews08/07/2021

New method to measure loss of signal in far-infrared instruments

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NewsNews06/07/2021

Astronomers map interstellar dust grains in Milky Way

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NewsNews30/06/2021

Dozens of strong methane plumes identified in US Permian Basin

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NewsNews11/06/2021

Venus orbiter EnVision selected as new ESA mission

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NewsNews07/06/2021

SRON sends filter wheel and calibration system XRISM telescope to Japan

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NewsNews28/05/2021

Kees de Jager (100) has passed away

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NewsNews05/05/2021

A New Window to the Hidden Side of the Magnetized Universe

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NewsNews03/05/2021

New model can predict carbon cycle presence on exoplanets

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NewsNews09/04/2021

Herschel overview paper reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds

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NewsNews24/03/2021

Astronomers see first hint of silhouette spaghettified star

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NewsNews22/02/2021

Final inspection of Dutch space instrument SPEXone before transport to NASA

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NewsNews18/02/2021

Natural geological methane emissions appear larger than expected

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NewsNews03/02/2021

Evidence for substance at liquid-gas boundary on exoplanet WASP-31b

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NewsNews29/01/2021

Astronomers see whirlwind around possible exoplanet-in-the-making

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NewsNews26/01/2021

TROPOMI confirms aircraft observations: Mexico’s Onshore Methane Emissions Are Much Higher Than Reported

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NewsNews08/12/2020

New X-ray pixel designs rival conventional square shape

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NewsNews18/11/2020

Ten times more hyper luminous galaxies observed in the infrared than stars can produce according to models

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NewsNews03/11/2020

Vidi grant for studying galaxy mergers across cosmic time

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NewsNews02/11/2020

Technology ready for back-up detector X-IFU in Athena space telescope

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NewsNews02/11/2020

Astronomers see collisions of galaxy clusters at seven billion lightyears

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NewsNews26/10/2020

New device reshapes laser beam for far-infrared telescopes

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A screenshot from the TANGO video showing one of the two components of TANGO flying high above the Earth's surface and measuring greenhouse gases. In this visualisation, TANGO is flying above the United Kingdom and detecting greenhouse gases, which are visualised by a different colour within a designated square area.
NewsNews09/10/2020

TANGO mission proposal presented in final selection round for ESA’s Scout mission

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NewsNews08/10/2020

Costs too high for space telescope SPICA

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NewsNews29/09/2020

Aerosol instrument SPEX airborne starts measurement campaign in European airspace

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NewsNews22/09/2020

SRON detector array demonstrates novel microwave readout

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NewsNews09/09/2020

Two new arrays complete detector for GUSTO mission

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NewsNews26/08/2020

SRON-director Michael Wise appointed as vice-chair of ESA’s Science Programme Committee

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NewsNews12/08/2020

Largest ever collection of thermonuclear explosions on neutron stars

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NewsNews01/07/2020

Astronomers see unexpected molecule in exoplanet atmosphere

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NewsNews24/06/2020

First detector array ready for GUSTO mission

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NewsNews01/06/2020

First Spectrum milestone for aerosol space instrument SPEXone

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NewsNews29/05/2020

Astronomers predict bombardment from asteroids and comets in other planetary system

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NewsNews27/05/2020

Mergers between galaxies trigger activity in their core

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NewsNews06/05/2020

Astronomers make composition drawing of elusive wandering black holes

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NewsNews23/04/2020

Astronomers find formula for subsurface oceans in exomoons

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