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Royal Astronomical Society honours team behind first picture black hole with 2021 Group Achievement Award11 January 2021The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration receives the 2021 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award. In April 2019, the EHT team pres...
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives the Jules Janssen Prize 202008 January 2021The French Astronomical Society SAF (Société Astronomique de France) has awarded its international astronomy prize, the Jules Janssen Prize, to Leiden...
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Dutch collaboration wins HPC Innovation Excellence Award for the first time21 December 2020A Dutch collaboration, including the SURF Open Innovation Lab and Leiden Observatory, has won Hyperion Research's HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Thi...
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The real value of the telescope-on-a-plane10 December 2020Cornelia Pabst is a PhD candidate at Leiden Observatory, whose research is based around primary data taken by instruments onboard SOFIA, an airplane-b...
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‘Connect to at least one other person’10 December 2020At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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Catching stars to reveal the secrets of the darkness: ERC Consolidator for Elena Maria Rossi09 December 2020The centre of our Galaxy is so dark and dense that it is almost impossible to observe what is inside. By catching the rare hypervelocity stars that ar...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchers09 December 2020From fake news via WhatsApp to mini hearts from a 3D printer: four Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research ...
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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...