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Keep busy with these astronomy activities you can do from home02 April 2020Stuck at home with little to do? Don’t worry, because we have the perfect space related activities you can do from home, alone or with your family, in...
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Hubble fellowship at NASA for Emiel Por30 March 2020Astronomy PhD candidate Emiel Por has been selected by NASA as one of the 24 Hubble fellows in 2020. He will be conducting research at the American Sp...
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Why turning back time is not always possible23 March 2020If three or more objects move around each other, history cannot be reversed. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers based on c...
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Enjoy the photo exhibition in the Old Observatory from home19 March 2020Two radio telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginia have brought together a few remarkable people. A new photo exhibition in the Old Observatory visitor...
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Here is how you can help astronomers to identify black holes17 March 2020Scientists are asking your help to find the origin of hundreds of thousands of galaxies that have been discovered by the largest radio telescope ever ...
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Astronomer Jorryt Matthee receives MERAC Prize for best thesis06 March 2020Dutch astronomer Jorryt Matthee will receive the European MERAC Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in observational astrophysics. Matthee received his doc...
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This is how ESA telescope Euclid is going to visualise dark matter25 February 2020How can you see something that’s invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the Universe and teach us more abou...
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LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environments18 February 2020Using the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science Day14 February 2020Working on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...
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Leiden astronomers discover potential near-Earth objects12 February 2020Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth in the future. They did their res...
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Twinkle, twinkle, giant star03 February 2020Up above the world so high a giant star twinkles. Could an 83-year-old astronomer unravel the mystery of this megastar? ‘At times I thought: that’s it...
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Oxygen line opens new perspective on the far universe13 January 2020A team of astronomers of Leiden University and the University of Texas (Austin, United States) has discovered a new way to map distant galaxies. They ...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talents07 January 2020Mathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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New water jet cutter for Fine Mechanical Department07 January 2020The Fine Mechanical Department's (FMD) new Wardjet A0612 will cut anything using a 4000 bar water jet. This enables the FMD to work faster, more accur...
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Hans Sigrist Prize for astronomer Ignas Snellen13 December 2019On Saturday 7 December, Leiden professor of Observational Astrophysics Ignas Snellen received the Hans Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern. The ...