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Veni grant for research into the youngest exoplanetsThe 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’SRON 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 allIn 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 grownA 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 materialAstronomers 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 lightMany 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 exploration
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 galaxiesDwarf 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 DishoeckEwine van Dishoeck was broadly covered in national and international media with her prestigious Kavli prize for astrophysics. She won 1 million dollar...
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Ewine van Dishoeck wins Kavli prize for astrophysicsHow are stars and planets formed? Is life outside Earth possible? These questions are being researched by Professor of Molecular Astrophysics Ewine va...
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Marie Curie grant for dark matterLeiden Observatory is going to use a new technique to carry out calculations on gravitational lensing measurements. They will do this is the context o...
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Ewine van Dishoeck in Board of Trustees Institute for Advanced StudyThe Institute for Advanced Study has appointed astronomer and chemist Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck to its Board of Trustees, effective 5 May, 2018.
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Royal honour for astronomer Tim de ZeeuwLeiden astronomer Tim de Zeeuw has been appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He received the distinction on 14 May to mark his departure a...
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Oort Lecturer 2018: James Kasting about the search for life on planets around other starsIf there is life outside our galaxy, how could we find it? In his Oort Lecture, James Kasting talks about his search for simple life on other planets....
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Dutch astronomers photograph possible toddler planet by chanceA group of astronomers was actually examining the dust disc around the young double star CS Cha, when they saw a small dot on the edge of their images...