NWO The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)

Astronomy institutes in the Netherlands

• Sterrenwacht Leiden (RU Leiden)
• Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (RU Groningen)
• ASTRON (Dwingeloo)
• JIVE (Dwingeloo)
• Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
• Astronomy Department (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Sterrenkundig Instituut (KU Nijmegen)
• Sterrenkundig Instituut (RU Utrecht)

Educational links

Primary school level

• Kidsastronomy. Learn about astronomy.
• Universe Awareness All kind of activities to inspire you with our wonderful cosmos
• Space All kind of activities and information about space by ESA (in Dutch)
• Sterrenkids All about astronomy and space travel (in Dutch)
• Astronomy for kids and for teachers (Dutch page)
• Yourney through space in 80 lessons Teaching material (in Dutch)

 

High school level

• From Earth to the Solar System:a collection of high resolution images that showcase the discoveries and excitement of planetary exploration, with a focus on the origin and evolution of the Solar System and the search for life.
• NRAO educational pages: the US portal focussing on radio astronomy.
• ATNF: the Australian telescope pages for outreach and education  
• ESA educational pages: the European portal on space science. 
• The Portal to the Universe: features news about anything in astronomy, astronomy pictures of the day and live images of the Sun.
• Galaxy zoo: a user friendly astronomical software which allowed the Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel to made her discovery.
• Virtual radio telescope: a demonstration of Earth-rotation aperture synthesis (you have different choice of Radio Telescopes among which the WSRT).
• World Wide Telescope: World Wide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.
• Google Sky: To help you explore the far reaches of our universe, Google has teamed up with astronomers at some of the largest observatories in the world to bring you a new view of the sky and look at millions of stars and galaxies.
• Stellarium: free software showing the stary sky at each moment. Also handy for the positions of the Moon and planets.
• Sky calendar: calendar with sky phenomena and data of celestial objects.
• Science in school. Highlighting the best in science teaching and research.
• Challenge the Universe All kind of activities to explore the universe.
• The evolving universe Information about our solar system, our galaxy and the univers of galaxies.
• Education about astronomy: All kind of activities and information by the Netherlands research school for astronomy (in Dutch).
• Astronomy Links for public and education 
• An overview of education sites, such as: About the Sun; astronomy for kids; Layers of the Sun; Amazing space; Black holes; Windows to the Universe.
• Alles over sterrenkunde (in Dutch)
• Sterrenkunde in Nederland (in Dutch)
• Radio astronomy (in Dutch)
• Spaceweather: up to date website with developments in the universe.
• Sterrenkunde voor jongeren
• Astroforum
• Sterrenkundeolympiade
• Astronomy picture of the day (in Dutch)
• NASA: Chandra's X-ray observatory

Space research in the Netherlands

• SRON Nederland
• ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk

Colloquia/Seminars at institutes in the Netherlands

• Amsterdam UvA
• Amsterdam VU
• Dwingeloo
• Groningen
• Leiden
• Nijmegen
• Utrecht

Links to astronomy information around the world

• AstroWeb-CDS Astronomy on the Internet (Strasbourg)
• International Astronomy Meetings

Various astronomical organizations

• American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
• Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF)
• European Astronomical Society (EAS)
• International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• Nederlandse Astronomen Club (NAC)
• Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
• European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie (NOVA)
• Radionet FP7
• European VLBI Network

Journals and preprints

• astro-ph preprint archive (Mirrors in Europe: Augsburg, Germany; Trieste, Italy or Southampton UK or the original site at Los Alamos xxx.lanl.gov)
• The Astrophysical Journal Astronomy and Astrophysics (Main Journal)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics (Supplement Series)
• New Astronomy, Nature, Science Archived, New Scientist, ADS Abstracts at CfA and a mirror at CDS (Strasbourg),  Database with abstracts of articles (TU Delft)
• Zenit: astronomical magazine (Dutch)

Miscellaneous links

• LOFAR for general public or for scientists
• Square Kilometre Array, international radio telescope
• AstroTec Holding BV
• North Stars, technology transfer
• URSI (The International Union of Radio Science)
• URSI (The International Union of Radio Science - NL)
• NERG (Vereniging van ingenieurs die werkzaam zijn op het gebied van de elektronica en/of verwerking en transmissie van informatie)
• Science in the Netherlands
• Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Weer- en Sterrenkunde 
• Blaauw Observatory Groningen
• Mobile planetarium of the University of Groningen