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First direct detection of a brown dwarf with a radio telescope 09 November 2020
Astronomers at ASTRON and Leiden University have used the LOFAR radio telescope to discover a 'brown dwarf' – a faint object more massive than Jupiter...
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Veni grants for eleven Leiden researchers 05 November 2020
Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...
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Leiden University signs agreement with Tsinghua to co-foster PhDs in astronomy 03 November 2020
On 26 October, Leiden University held its first online signing ceremony, signing an agreement with China’s top university Tsinghua to establish a join...
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Astronomers see gigantic collisions of galaxy clusters in young universe 02 November 2020
An international team of researchers led by Leiden University (the Netherlands) has mapped nine gigantic collisions of galaxy clusters. The collisions...
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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research 23 October 2020
The origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...
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Increasing the participation of girls and underrepresented communities in space science 19 October 2020
The SpaceEU project, coordinated by Leiden University, has launched an online toolkit with a collection of space-centred activities that engage people...
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Massive Stars Are Factories for Ingredients to Life 13 October 2020
NASA’s telescope SOFIA has provided a new glimpse of the chemistry in the inner region surrounding massive young stars where future planets could begi...
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How the scientific community can learn from failures 08 October 2020
The Astronomy & Society group of Leiden Observatory takes a new turn in science: they have decided to share their rejected research proposals with the...
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Young Star Maite Boden broadens her horizon 25 September 2020
At the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...
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Leiden researchers depict the formation of galaxies 24 September 2020
An international team of astronomers, with researchers at Leiden Observatory playing a leading role, has mapped the fuel for galaxy formation in the i...
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Dark matter with a hint of Leiden shines at Dublin gallery 21 September 2020
A glittering visualisation of dark matter by Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker is on display in the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin. The install...
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Face-to-face astronomy conference consumes 3000 times more CO2 than online edition 11 September 2020
Leiden astronomers published two articles on more sustainable astronomy in a special section of the journal Nature Astronomy. Among other things, they...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting 07 September 2020
From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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New KiDS result: Universe 10 per cent more homogeneous than assumed 31 July 2020
New results from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) show that the Universe is almost 10 percent more homogeneous than previously thought. The new KiDS map ...
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Astronomers capture first-ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star 22 July 2020
An international team led by Leiden astronomers has taken the first-ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. The rese...