ImageOn 30 October 2011 SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research will open its doors to the public as part of the October Knowledge Month series of events. At the Groningen location, visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the latest...

Sterrenkundigen hebben met de Herschel-ruimtetelescoop voor het eerst koude waterdamp gevonden in een planeetvormende schijf rond een jonge ster. Deze ontdekking duidt erop dat deze schijf, die bezig is zich tot een planetenstelsel te ontwikkelen,...

This illustration shows the orbit of the Jupiter-Family comet 103P/Hartley 2 in relation to the orbits of the innermost 5 planets of the Solar System. (ESA/AOES Medialab; Herschel/HssO Consortium)ESA’s Herschel infrared space observatory has found...

ESA’s Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that galaxies do not need to collide with each other to drive vigorous star birth. The finding overturns this long-held assumption and paints a more stately picture of how galaxies evolve.The...

De lezing van Rens Waters op Lowlands University was een succes. Een bomvolle tent met festivalgangers luisterde geboeid naar Waters voordracht over de vorming van sterren en planeten, en de zoektocht naar water in stervormingsgebieden en ons eigen...

Scientists from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) have developed a highly accurate method to derive concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO2 ‑­ and methane from observations of Japanese...

ESA’s Herschel space observatory has found molecules of oxygen in a nearby star-forming cloud. This is the first undisputed detection of oxygen molecules in space. It concludes a long search but also leaves questions unanswered. The HIFI...

These observations were made by Herschel?s HIFI instrument on 21 June, 8 July 2009 and June 24, 2010. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)ESA’s Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of...

Researcher Paul Hartogh and colleagues, presenting far-infrared observations from the space telescope Herschel (ESA), report the direct detection of a torus around Saturn consisting of water-dominated gases and ice particles that have escaped from...

ImageZaterdag 20 augustus van 13.45 – 14.30 geeft SRON-directeur Rens Waters college op Lowlands. Sinds het begin van het onderzoek naar de ruimte probeert de mens antwoorden te vinden op de belangrijke vraagstukken over ons bestaan. Hoe ontstond het...

Jochem Baselmans and his group are develeping Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs)Researchers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Delft University of Technology (TUD) have stumbled across a fundamental limit for superconductors in...