News
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What do PAHs do in space? 10 November 2009
Xander Tielens, Professor of Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Space, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study polycyclic aromatic hydr...
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New light on dark matter 30 September 2009
An international team of astronomers has found an unexpected link between dark matter and visible stars in stellar systems. This discovery may even ca...
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Strange spinning binary star explains 30-year enigma 16 September 2009
An international team led by Leiden astronomers has discovered why the two stars of binary star DI Herculis rotate so strangely around one another, wh...
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Leiden University Excellence Scholarships (LexS) awarded 01 September 2009
The Leiden University Excellence Scholarships Programme (LExS) provides scholarships for excellent international students from outside the EU/EEA who ...
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What happens when two galaxies collide? 14 July 2009
When galaxies collide, do the black holes at their centre form a supersized black hole? This is what we think happens, but it's not as simple as that,...
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Planet formation: food for thought 20 April 2009
Planet formation is a surprisingly homogeneous process that does not take place gradually from inside out, but that occurs everywhere at the same time...
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New research centre for studying planet and star formation 20 March 2009
The ALMA Local Expertise Group (Allegro) is located in the Leiden Observatory (Sterrewacht). Professor Ewine van Dishoeck: ‘The Netherlands has played...
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Leiden PhD researcher wins NASA Hubble Fellowship 03 March 2009
Leiden PhD researcher Karin Öberg is one of the 17 winners of the NASA Hubble Fellowship. When she has obtained her PhD this autumn she will move to t...
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Ewine van Dishoeck shows us new worlds in Dies lecture 03 February 2009
Her specialist field is molecular astrophysics, and she is the most quoted scholar in her field. In this, the year of astronomy, she is the ideal per...