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International outreach project IAU100 awarded with Dutch Communication Award01 December 2020The international astronomy outreach project IAU100 has won the first Communication Award by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The initiative was foun...
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A YouTube channel for exoplanet researchers30 November 2020Professor Ignas Snellen has developed an online platform where exoplanet researchers can post videos about their work: exoplanet-talks.org. ‘For young...
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4.9 milion euros for unraveling the mysteries of black holes25 November 2020The Dutch Black Holes Consortium receives 4.9 million euros from NWO for unravelling the mysteries of black holes and other mysteries of the universe....
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Glycine in space produced by dark chemistry16 November 2020An international team of laboratory astrophysicists and astrochemical modellers has shown that glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important build...
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First direct detection of a brown dwarf with a radio telescope09 November 2020Astronomers 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 researchers05 November 2020Eleven 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 astronomy03 November 2020On 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 universe02 November 2020An 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 research23 October 2020The 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 science19 October 2020The 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 Life13 October 2020NASA’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 failures08 October 2020The 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 horizon25 September 2020At 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 galaxies24 September 2020An 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 gallery21 September 2020A glittering visualisation of dark matter by Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker is on display in the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin. The install...