November 2019: the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE) launches an unprecedented service that alerts pilots and air traffic controllers when navigation and communication systems may experience problems, or when the health of passengers and crew... Read more...
The Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Museum of Natural Sciences of Spain (MNCN-CSIC) joined forces in a field campaign to measure earthquakes and ambient seismic... Read more...
Brussels, 11 October 2024 – This is not a Brussels folk festival, but a scientific research project. OMMEGANG, an acronym for ‘Observing dark Matter and MEteoroids with Gravimeters ANd GNSS’, is aimed at detecting mini... Read more...
By the STCE, the Belgian space weather institute On October 9, 03:56 Belgian time, the Sun released an extreme solar flare of category X. This is an intense light flash. We define 5 categories: A,B,C,M and... Read more...
Brussels, 30 September 2024 – To protect Earth from asteroids, the Royal Observatory of Belgium participates in the European Space Agency’s Hera mission, which is set to launch on Monday, 7 October 2024 at 16:52 Belgian time (first... Read more...
Belgian researchers are involved in a study lead by an international multidisciplinary team In September 2023, a mysterious, globally observed and unprecedented 9-day-long seismic signal was caused by a massive landslide in Greenland. 25 million m³... Read more...
The Planetarium of the Royal Observatory of Belgium participates in the free WiseNight Science Festival on 27 September 2024. WiseNight is a fun and inclusive event that aims to bring science and scientists in contact... Read more...
80 years ago, the Allies liberated Brussels, and this event was marked by the solar observers of the Royal Observatory of Belgium. At the Observatory, scientific activity did not cease during the war. In particular, the... Read more...
The EUI and SWAP/LYRA PI teams welcome research proposals for the 2025 round of their Guest Investigator Program for research based on EUI, SWAP and/or LYRA data analysis by scientists outside the PI teams. Selected proposers... 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...
