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Astronomers finally measure polarised light from exoplanetAn international team led by Leiden astronomers has, after years of searching and defying the boundaries of a telescope, for the first time directly c...
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Royal Astronomical Society honours team behind first picture black hole with 2021 Group Achievement AwardThe 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 2020The 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 timeA 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-planeCornelia 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’At 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 RossiThe 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 researchersFrom 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 AwardThe 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 researchersProfessor 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 holesThe 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 chemistryAn 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 telescopeAstronomers 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 researchersEleven 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 astronomyOn 26 October, Leiden University held its first online signing ceremony, signing an agreement with China’s top university Tsinghua to establish a join...