New findings from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal that even the tiniest bursts of activity from the Sun may behave like their larger counterparts. The Sun constantly produces tiny flashes of extreme ultraviolet... Read more...
On Saturday 28 June 2025, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., twelve female researchers from all over Belgium will be sharing their passion and knowledge in a fun and accessible way at the Carrefour de... Read more...
This is the image of the duo-satellite Proba-3 making solar eclipses, just released by the European Space Agency, ESA. The image was taken by the instrument ASPIICS on Proba-3. The raw image, once transmitted to... Read more...
Thanks to a push from planet Venus earlier this year, the orbit of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft was tilted. A century ago mankind raced to explore the poles of the Earth, now Solar Orbiter made... Read more...
May 12, 2020 – The 3 telescopes of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard Solar Orbiter opened their doors to capture images of the Sun. May 12, 2025 – Almost 1 million images of the Sun... Read more...
On 8, 9 and 10 April 2025, the Royal Observatory of Belgium welcomed 85 leading solar physicists, in person and online, to participate in an international workshop on the future of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter... Read more...
A partial solar eclipse will take place on Saturday, 29 March 2025 and will be visible in Belgium. Instruments of the Royal Observatory of Belgium will observe it. If the weather permits it, there will... Read more...
A new documentary about the end of the dinosaur era research will be screened on March 27 and April 2, 2025, at the 2025 DOCVILLE festival in Leuven. Named ‘De dag dat het zonlicht niet... Read more...
On Mars 12 2025, at 13:51 (Belgian local time), the ESA Hera mission for planetary defence made a close flyby of the planet Mars and its moons Deimos and Phobos. Scientists took the opportunity to... Read more...
This Operational Directorate (OD1) contributes to the elaboration of reference systems and timescales, integrates Belgium in the international reference frames, and studies the interior, rotation, dynamics, and crustal deformation of the Earth and other terrestrial planets and moons of our solar system. Read more...
The main mission of this Operational Directorate (OD2) is studying seismic activity, its causes and its consequences in western Europe. In support of this scientific research and to provide the authorities, the media and the public with relevant information about the seismic activity in real time in our region, this operational direction develops and maintains a network of seismic monitoring in Belgium. Read more...
This Operational Directorate (OD3) conducts scientific research in astronomy, especially in the field of stellar physics and the study of objects of the solar system. Research themes include astrometry, stellar evolution and asteroseismologie. Read more...
This Operational Directorate (OD4) studies the outer layers and the atmosphere of the Sun, with a particular focus on solar activity and the influence it exerts on the Earth and its space environment (space weather). On the ground, the observations are obtained using the Uccle Solar Equatorial Table (USET). Read more...
