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Cosmologists propose new way to form primordial black holes29 August 2018What is dark matter? How do supermassive black holes form? ‘Primordial’ black holes might hold the answer to these long-standing questions. Leiden and...
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Exhibition celebrates a century of astronomical discoveries22 August 2018Some of the most significant and surprising astronomical breakthroughs that have shaped science, technology and culture over the last century are show...
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science15 August 2018Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Astronomers discover furthest radio galaxy ever07 August 2018After almost twenty years the record for the most distant radio galaxy has been broken. A team of astronomers led by Leiden PhD candidate Aayush Saxen...
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Discovering new physics in extremely bright neutron stars07 August 2018Astronomer Alexander Mushtukov, currently working at the University of Amsterdam, received a Veni grant of 250,000 euro’s which he will execute in Lei...
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Beijing Normal University visits Leiden for Astronomy Summer School26 July 2018The Leiden Observatory was very pleased to welcome eight bachelor’s students from Beijing Normal University at 8 July for the BNU Astronomy Summer Sch...
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Veni grant for research into the youngest exoplanets16 July 2018The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded Leiden astronomer Giovanni Rosotti a Veni grant for research into very young exoplane...
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‘SRON and South-Holland can reinforce each other well’13 July 2018SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. In 2021, the Utrecht branch will settle in South-Holland. Pieter Dieleman is group leader at ...
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Galaxy in the early Universe contains carbon after all02 July 2018In 2015, Jorryt Matthee thought he discovered an extremely distant galaxy called CR7, which lacked elements heavier than helium. Three years later, he...
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Planet formation starts before a star is fully grown25 June 2018A team of European astronomers under Leiden leadership has discovered that dust particles around a star already coagulate before the star is fully gro...
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Newton-telescope finds missing intergalactic material20 June 2018Astronomers from, among others, SRON and Leiden Observatory have discovered long-sought intergalactic gas with ESA’s space telescope XMM-Newton. This ...
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Weighing heavenly bodies based on bending light19 June 2018Many astronomers suspect that most of the matter in the universe is invisible. So how can you weigh dark matter if you can't actually see it? Professo...
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A summer filled with space exploration18 June 2018
This summer, Leiden, The Hague, Noordwijk and Delft will be hosting the ‘Sizzling Summer of Space’. To tie in with the international Space Studies Pro...
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Dancing with giants: dynamics of dwarf satellite galaxies14 June 2018Dwarf satellite galaxies in the Milky Way perform different dances than researchers initially expected. Marius Cautun from Durham University received ...
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Broad media coverage for Kavli prize Ewine van Dishoeck07 June 2018Ewine van Dishoeck was broadly covered in national and international media with her prestigious Kavli prize for astrophysics. She won 1 million dollar...