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Keep busy with these astronomy activities you can do from homeStuck 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 PorAstronomy 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 possibleIf 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 homeTwo 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 holesScientists 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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World news: eleven asteroids on a collision course with EarthThe discovery that eleven asteroids might collide with our Earth has become world news. The research of three Leiden astronomers has appeared on more ...
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Astronomer Jorryt Matthee receives MERAC Prize for best thesisDutch 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 matterHow 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 environmentsUsing 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 DayWorking 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 objects
Three 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 starUp 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 universeA 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 talentsMathematician 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 DepartmentThe 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...