15-07-15 |
ARIEL mission to unravel exoplanet atmospheres
An ambitious European mission is being planned to answer fundamental questions about how planetary systems form and evolve. ARIEL will investigate the atmospheres of several hundreds planets orbiting distant stars. It is one of three candidate missions selected last month by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its next medium class science mission, due for launch in 2026. The ARIEL mission concept has been developed by a consortium of more than 50 institutes from 12 countries including the Netherlands. The mission will be presented today at the Pathways 2015 conference in Bern, Switzerland. |
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13-07-15 |
The Netherlands delivers Earth observation instrument Tropomi
Na een succesvolle afronding van de bouw- en testfase is het Nederlandse aardobservatie-instrument Tropomi de afgelopen weken op de Sentinel 5 Precursor satelliet bevestigd. Het afronden van deze samenbouw in de cleanroom van Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, Engeland, vormt een mijlpaal in de Europese aardobservatiemissie, die vanuit de ruimte wereldwijd gegevens gaat verzamelen over ons klimaat en de luchtkwaliteit. De resultaten van een maandenlange testfase om Tropomi te kalibreren, bevestigen dat het ruimte-instrument zeer nauwkeurige metingen van de atmosfeer gaat leveren. |
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09-07-15 |
Student lays technology foundation for balloon mission camera
Last week TU Delft student XuXiang Liu obtained his Msc degree in Electrical Engineering. XuXiang, who graduated with cum laude, was the very first student in Electrical Engineering who did his graduation project at SRON. At SRON he laid a solid technology foundation for the proposed cameras of the NASA balloon borne observatory GUSTO. |
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02-07-15 |
Students from Groningen repeat Nobel prize experiment
Op 20 mei 1964 maten Arno Allan Penzias en Robert Woodrow Wilson voor heet eerst het nagloeien van de Big Bang. In 1978 ontvingen ze daarvoor de Nobelprijs. Op donderdagochtend, 2 juli 2015, hebben vier bachelorstudenten deze meting herhaald op het balkon van het Kapteyn Instituut, de sterrenkundeafdeling van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. |
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01-07-15 |
Important steps on the road to structural cooperation with China
SRON heeft weer een paar belangrijke stappen gezet op weg naar een structurele samenwerking met de Chinese ruimtevaart. SRON trekt hierbij samen op met TNO, NSO, de Nederlandse overheid en andere Nederlandse ruimtevaartorganisaties en -instituten. In het oog springt vooral een CO2-missie die met Chinees geld van de grond moet gaan komen. |
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23-06-15 |
Neutron star imitates black hole
An international team of astronomers - including SRON-researcher Peter Jonker - has found a neutron star which acts like a black hole in many ways. An extraordinary set of rings surrounding the neutron star system led to the conclusion that the neutron star is very bright at times and that it produces jets with at least 99,9% of the speed of light. Up until now this behavior was predominantly associated with black holes. The research results have appeared in the Astrophysical Journal today. |
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19-05-15 |
Solving the primeval dust puzzle
SRON researcher Elisa Costantini will receive a Vidi grant from Dutch science financier NWO. Costantini and her team will study the primaeval dust in the interstellar medium to shed new light on for instance star formation and the formation of planets. With the grant, which will add up to a maximum of 800.000 euros, Costantini will be able to set up her own new research line. |
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29-04-15 |
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18-02-15 |
29-01-15 |
Millions for intermediate black holes and revolutionary redshift instrument
The European Research Council has awarded SRON researchers Jochem Baselmans (2.4 million euros) and Peter Jonker (2 million euros) prestigious research grants for independent groundbreaking research. Jonker will chase intermediate-mass black holes to find out if they really exist. Baselmans will develop a revolutionary instrument to measure the redshift of submillimeter galaxies, distant galaxies that are responsible for the cosmic infrared background radiation. |
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20-01-15 |
Over 2.3 million for space cameras
De provincie Groningen stelt ruim 2,3 miljoen euro subsidie beschikbaar aan de ruimteonderzoeksinstituut SRON. Met dit geld ontwikkelt SRON, samen met bedrijven uit de regio, nieuwe producten op basis van de nieuwste ruimtevaarttechnologie. Zoals bijvoorbeeld delen van camera's die mee gaan met toekomstige ruimtemissies van de European Space Agency (ESA) en camera's die in het MKB en in de industrie gebruikt gaan worden. |
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14-01-15 |
10-12-14 |
15 year old XMM-Newton still going strong
XMM-Newton (ESA) is de gevoeligste röntgentelescoop die ooit in de ruimte is gebracht. Zijn opvolger ASTRO-H staat al klaar, maar de krasse knar weet niet van ophouden. Op 10 december 2014 is hij precies 15 jaar oud, en hij blijft spectaculaire waarnemingen doen aan onder meer aan pulsars, clusters van sterrenstelsels en superzware zwarte gaten. Aan boord bevinden zich Nederlandse reflectietralie-spectrometers. Succesverhaal van extreem betrouwbare ruimtetechnologie. |
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08-12-14 |
02-12-14 |
Dutch version of Stargazing Live on 3 December
December 3, will see the premiere of "Heel Nederland Kijkt Sterren", the Netherlands version of the successful BBC program Stargazing Live. This astronomy TV show will be broadcast live from Westerbork, with presentation and demonstrations by Govert Schilling and Jeroen Latijnhouwers from the control room, plus stargazing outside. |
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25-11-14 |
03-11-14 |
Jelle Kaastra professor at Leiden University
Today 3 November SRON researcher Jelle Kaastra delivered his inaugural speech as professor at Leiden University. Kaastra - who is appointed professor High Energy Astrophysics at Leiden - gave in his speech an overview of X-ray diagnostics in space. |
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03-11-14 |
Citizen science network produces accurate maps of atmospheric dust
Measurements by thousands of citizen scientists in the Netherlands using their smartphones and the iSPEX add-on are delivering accurate data on dust particles in the atmosphere that add valuable information to professional measurements. The iSPEX team, led by Frans Snik of Leiden University, analyzed all measurements from three days in 2013 and combined them into unique maps of dust particles above the Netherlands. The results match and sometimes even exceed those of ground-based measurement networks and satellite instruments. |
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23-10-14 |
Magnetic field of accretion disk finally captured
For the first time astronomers have been able to capture the magnetic field in the accretion disk around a young star. The shape of the field was a big surprise. The discovery suggests that magnetic fields play an important role in forming a planetary system like our own, but that the process is more complicated than our current understanding. The research results have been published in Nature today. |
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