SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research gaat met financiële steun van onderzoeksfinancier NWO een ruimtesimulator ontwikkelen. In de simulator - die de duisternis en de extreem lage temperaturen in het heelal nabootst - wil het...

Metingen in de eerste helft van 2010 door SRON's moleculenjager HIFI - een van de drie instrumenten aan boord van ESA's ruimtetelescoop Herschel - hebben geleid tot meer dan vijftig wetenschappelijke publicaties. Om dat te vieren overhandigt SRON...

HIFI, one of the three scientific instruments on ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, has taken a hit by a cosmic ray particle in a critical area again. On Monday 28 February a particle presumably hit the electronics of the instrument, which brought...

The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) has expressed serious interest in the SPEX instrument, the spectropolarimeter currently under development at SRON in collaboration with the Astronomical Institute Utrecht and other Dutch partners. SPEX...

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research will supply essential hardware for the infrared module of TROPOMI, the instrument onboard the European environmental satellite Sentinel-5 precursor, which shall monitor air pollution in the troposphere and...

At the request of the Dutch NOS News Channel, SRON-director Rens Waters on december 1st commented on the announced discovery of NASA. NASA will give a press conference later this day, but the news is already out on the street. Scientists have...

SRON researcher Dr Remco de Kok will use a Veni grant from NWO to investigate the atmospheres of exoplanets. De Kok has received 250,000 euro to develop a more accurate algorithm for determining the composition of planetary atmospheres. The first...

Onderzoek van twee masterstudenten van het Sterrenkundig Instituut Anton Pannekoek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) heeft een nieuwe kijk opgeleverd op de structuur van de gas- en stofschijf rondom een zogeheten Herbig Be-ster. De metingen...

How exactly are new stars born? Using the Dutch molecule hunter HIFI, astronomers have been trying to answer that question for the past 18 months. The results are highly promising: to date no fewer than 62 scientific articles have been published...

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted. This finding has emerged from research by a joint US/Dutch team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, TU Delft and SRON. The scientists have published their...

Astronomers have found water vapour in the atmosphere of a carbon star with the Herschel space observatory. Until now the formation of water vapour in the atmosphere of such a star was deemed impossible. The discovery was made by a team of...

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research will have a new directorate effective July 1st, 2010. Professor of Astronomy Rens Waters (University of Amsterdam) will become the Science Director on this date and he will also assume the position of...