Collaborating on the space detector for ‘missing’ matter

"Tsinghua University and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research sign a memorandum"

BEIJING/UTRECHT/GRONINGEN, 29 June 2017 – China and the Netherlands will work together with a view to a future Chinese space telescope for studying 'missing matter', suspected thin gas in the universe with a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees. The renowned Tsinghua University in Beijing and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research will study if detectors that are developed in Europe for a project of the European Space Agency ESA, is suitable for measuring radiation from such hot plasma. The two parties sealed the collaboration on Thursday in Beijing.