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Standpunt over Oekraïne

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Het Directiecomité van de POD Wetenschapsbeleid, sluit zich aan bij de talrijke steunbetuigingen van de Belgische en internationale wetenschappelijke gemeenschap in verband met het gewapend conflict in Oekraïne.

Statement concerning Ukraine

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The Management Committee of Belspo, joins the numerous expressions of support from the Belgian and international scientific community regarding the armed conflict in Ukraine.

Solar frenzy!

Space-based observations reveal amazing features of the spectacular far-side solar eruption that occurred on 15 February.

Medical check for SC25

The STCE's SC25 Tracking page has been updated to reflect the latest evolution in solar and space weather activity. Solar cycle 25 seems to be heading for a maximum that is a bit higher than originally predicted.

Minor storm, major impact

Following a minor geomagnetic storm on 3 and 4 February, 40 Starlink satellites got lost. A number of these have already burned up in the earth's atmosphere.

Spotlight on NOAA 2936

Sunspot region NOAA 2936 dominated the solar activity during the last 2 weeks. It was one of the largest sunspot groups so far this solar cycle, and produced more than 50 C-class flares.

Solar Orbiter catches a second comet by the tail

For a spacecraft designed to conduct unique studies of the Sun, Solar Orbiter is also making a name for itself exploring comets. 

ROB/USET telescopes capture solar eruption

Despite the many cloudy days last month, solar telescopes at the ROB were able to capture a nice filament eruption on 14 January. Also the big sunspot group NOAA 2936 did not escape the instruments' vigilance.

The Christmas 2021 eruption

On 24 and 25 December last year, the Sun happily surprized solar observers with a wonderful Christmas gift in the form of an impressive solar eruption. Solar Orbiter's Full Sun Imager was on the right place to capture this mesmerizing event.

Something's lurking behind the solar limb...

An active region that produced several C-class flares and even an M-class flare while it was still behind the solar limb, turned out to be a very small sunspot group and did not produce any significant flaring once it became visible on the solar disk.

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