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Face-to-face astronomy conference consumes 3000 times more CO2 than online edition11 September 2020Leiden 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 setting07 September 2020From 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 assumed31 July 2020New 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 star22 July 2020An 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...
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Huib van Langevelde new director Event Horizon Telescope21 July 2020The Leiden astronomer Huib van Langevelde) has been selected as the new director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The EHT is a collaboration invo...
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Serena Viti is our new professor of Molecular Astrophysics07 July 2020The Leiden Observatory has appointed a new professor. Selena Viti will hold a chair in Molecular Astrophysics. Viti will build a research group that c...
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Leiden Observatory launches online summer programme for kids03 July 2020This summer, the Universe is closer than ever. With the online astronomy summer programme Space in Your Living Room!, the Leiden Observatory brings as...
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Europe to foster the Social-Economical Impact of Astronomy02 July 2020The European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (E-ROAD) has held its first conference session at the 2020 virtual Annual Meeting of the Eur...
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EAS 2020 in Leiden: the largest online astronomy meeting ever26 June 2020
Over 1600 astronomers and space scientists will gather online from 29 June until 3 July for the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (E...
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ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers residency at Leiden Observatory25 June 2020The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is now offering artists working with Artificial Intelligence the chance for a residency at the Leiden Observa...
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Three Leiden Science projects receive computing time on national supercomputers16 June 2020A night sky of more than 40 petabytes in size, simulating young star clusters and understanding how the body inhibits viruses: three Leiden projects h...
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ESO instrument METIS passes important design milestone05 June 2020The METIS instrument that’s being built for ESO's future Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Northern Chile under the leadership of the Dutch Research ...
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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy Fund19 May 2020The projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific act...
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Astronomy in corona times: 'All the big telescopes were at a standstill.'12 May 2020Astronomer Ignas Snellen studies exoplanets using telescope observations. But how is that possible when all the big telescopes are more or less at a s...
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First time methane ice formed in Leiden under space conditions13 April 2020An international team of astronomers has shown in a laboratory at Leiden University (the Netherlands) that methane can form on icy dust particles in s...