How many earthquakes were experienced in your municipality? In 2024, the Seismology and Gravimetry section of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) published a new paper presenting an overview of a century of felt earthquakes in... Read more...
On Saturday 14 December 2024, Jérémy Rekier of the Royal Observatory of Belgium was awarded the Mailly Prize by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. His colleague Sébastien Le Maistre,... Read more...
Earthquakes in Europe and Minor Asia from 284 to 1550 In 2024, the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) published a new book in historical seismology, written by Pierre Alexandre and Dominique Alexandre-Lamotte. In this work 2,489... Read more...
“Signal received.” After a smooth launch that was postponed by one day, operators and scientists waited to receive a first sign of life from the Proba-3 satellites. The crucial beep This was the confirmation that the separation... Read more...
ASPIICS onboard Proba-3 – Belgian research in the shadow of a satellite Proba-3 is the latest ESA mission to be launched on December 4, 2024. Proba-3 consists of not one, but two satellites that will fly... Read more...
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...
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...
