Seismic Activity in/around Belgium in 2021
In 2021, 257 earthquakes and 12 induced earthquakes were located by the Royal Observatory of Belgium in or near Belgium. Two earthquakes were felt on Belgian territory. [...]
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Jan 22
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Dec 21
The Observatory publishes its 2022 calendar (with text in French and Dutch)
The Royal Observatory of Belgium published its 2022 calendar. This is the second edition of its annual calendar.
This large calendar (32 cm x 32 cm) is illustrated with beautiful pictures representing the scientific activities of the Observatory. In addition,there is also information on astronomical events, written in French and Dutch, that can be observed with the naked eye or with [...]
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Nov 21
Solar Orbiter returns to Earth for a last goodbye
On 27 November 2021, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns from its voyages in deep space, and will pass at only a few hundred kilometers above the Earth’s surface. This manoeuvre is needed to get Solar Orbiter in a new orbit to go yet closer to the Sun. During this flyby, Solar Orbiter unfortunately needs to cross the clouds of space [...]
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Nov 21
DART: the Royal Observatory of Belgium participates in a NASA planetary defence mission
Brussels, 22 November 2021 – On November 24, 2021, at around 7:20 local Belgian time, NASA’s DART spacecraft will take off from the Vandenberg Space Force base in California (USA) as part of a planetary defence mission against asteroids. The Royal Observatory of Belgium is involved in this mission. The DART data will be used, among other things, to prepare [...]
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Oct 21
Sun, Space, STCE, and Sangria!
The Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence that combines research on the Sun, space and earth at the Belgian Space Pole will be present at the 4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA), a European Space Agency-led congress that will be hosted by the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech in April in Barcelona. SSEA provides a forum for university students, professionals working in [...]
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Oct 21
Véronique Dehant received her Prix Quinquennal of the FNRS at Bozar
Véronique Dehant, researcher at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has just been officially awarded the Dr De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize in Fundamental Exact Sciences, one of the five Prix Quinquennaux of the FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique). [...]
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Sep 21
Thierry Camelbeeck: 2021 Laureate of the Van den Broeck medal!
Thierry Camelbeeck will be awarded the Van den Broeck medal in Tervuren during the 7th International Geologica Belgica Meeting. The Van den Broeck medal was created in 1987 in honour of the first General Secretary of the Société belge de géologie. Geologica Belgica, i.e. Belgium’s current society for geologists, awards this medal to a scientist to honour his/her career work [...]
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Aug 21
The Sun at a Glance – Infographics Contest for Schools
The European Solar Telescope (EST) project is organising an international contest for secondary schools called ‘The Sun at a glance’. 14 to 16 year-old students from all over Europe are invited to create an infographic on a subject related to our star and help build the EST Solarpedia, an open educational resource about the Sun. [...]
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Jul 21
Two scientists of the Observatory in the top 2% most-cited researchers in the world
Stanford University recently released a list that represents the top 2% of the most-cited scientists in the world in various disciplines. It was created to provide updated analyses and a publicly available database of top scientists. Updated databases and code are freely available in Mendeley (https://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw).
This list of the top 2% most-cited scientists is composed of 159,684 researchers, of which 1,413 [...]
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Jul 21
Mars Interior Structure Revealed by InSight Seismic Data
Brussels, July 23, 2021 – New results from the NASA InSight mission on Mars are published today in the Science magazine, to which Attilio Rivoldini, researcher of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, contributed. Based on more than two years of data from the InSight seismometer, Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), and using existing geophysical models of Mars interior, the researchers were [...]