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Award for finding the most extreme stellar object in the Universe13 July 2021Joseph Callingham from the Leiden Observatory receives the Louise Webster Prize for outstanding post-doctoral research. The prize is awarded by the As...
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Bridging Sri Lanka and The Netherlands through astronomy01 July 2021'Find your way from the stars’, an online workshop on Nautical Astronomy, was one of the winners of The Netherlands Online Cultural Challenge 2020. Th...
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Open Science Hub receives 2021 Medal of Scientific Merit in Portugal29 June 2021Open Science Hub, a science education project coordinated by Leiden University, has won the 2021 Portuguese Medal of Scientific Merit for its contribu...
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Largest European astronomy congress for second time in Leiden24 June 2021For the second year in a row, the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society will take place online, from 28 June to 2 July 2021. Also this y...
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Four Leiden Science researchers go abroad with Rubicon grant21 June 2021Astronomer Donggang Wang, physicist Anne Meeussen and chemists Nick Gerrits and Elliot Mock: all four are receiving a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Res...
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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant21 June 2021Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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Leiden astronomers calculate genesis of Oort cloud in chronological order03 June 2021A team of Leiden astronomers has managed to calculate the first 100 million years of the history of the Oort cloud in its entirety. Until now, only pa...
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Astronomer Danna Qasim wins two prizes for dissertation on methane ice01 June 2021Former Leiden Observatory PhD candidate Danna Qasim has won no less than two prestigious prizes with her thesis, titled 'Dark ice chemistry in interst...
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International astronomers come to the aid of secluded Cuban scientists25 May 2021An international collaboration of astronomers is organising a special online lecture series for physicists and astronomers in Cuba. The reason for thi...
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Capturing polarised light in the search for alien plants18 May 2021A new way to decipher the light from distant worlds could give us unmistakable evidence of extraterrestrial photosynthesis, and maybe alien plants, fi...
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First discovery of methanol in a warm planet-forming disk10 May 2021An international team of researchers led by Alice Booth (Leiden University, the Netherlands) have discovered methanol in the warm part of a planet-for...
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Open Space project: where dance meets cosmology10 May 2021Until 15 May, Open Space will give room for artistic creation and experimentation in a partnership between artists and astronomers. The project is a c...
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High-mass stars are formed not from dust disk but from debris03 May 2021A Dutch-led team of astronomers has discovered that high-mass stars are formed differently from their smaller siblings. Whereas small stars are often ...
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Project in The Hague tackles teacher shortage and inequality at the same time26 April 2021A The Hague-based project is aiming to tackle teacher shortage and socioeconomic inequality reflected in primary education – and the objective is to d...
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Leiden astronomer Henk van de Hulst: humble man with great authority26 April 2021World-famous among astronomers, humble, and averse to conventions. On 23 April, the Dutch biography about Henk van de Hulst was published. Biographer ...