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Increasing the participation of girls and underserved communities in space scienceThe SpaceEU project, coordinated by Leiden University, has launched an online toolkit with a collection of space-centred activities that engage people...
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Massive Stars Are Factories for Ingredients to LifeNASA’s telescope SOFIA has provided a new glimpse of the chemistry in the inner region surrounding massive young stars where future planets could begi...
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How the scientific community can learn from failuresThe Astronomy & Society group of Leiden Observatory takes a new turn in science: they have decided to share their rejected research proposals with the...
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Young Star Maite Boden broadens her horizonAt the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...
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Leiden researchers depict the formation of galaxiesAn international team of astronomers, with researchers at Leiden Observatory playing a leading role, has mapped the fuel for galaxy formation in the i...
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Dark matter with a hint of Leiden shines at Dublin galleryA glittering visualisation of dark matter by Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker is on display in the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin. The install...
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Face-to-face astronomy conference consumes 3000 times more CO2 than online editionLeiden astronomers published two articles on more sustainable astronomy in a special section of the journal Nature Astronomy. Among other things, they...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely settingFrom a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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New KiDS result: Universe 10 per cent more homogeneous than assumedNew results from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) show that the Universe is almost 10 percent more homogeneous than previously thought. The new KiDS map ...
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Astronomers capture first-ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like starAn international team led by Leiden astronomers has taken the first-ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. The rese...
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Huib van Langevelde new director Event Horizon TelescopeThe Leiden astronomer Huib van Langevelde) has been selected as the new director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The EHT is a collaboration invo...
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Serena Viti is our new professor of Molecular AstrophysicsThe Leiden Observatory has appointed a new professor. Selena Viti will hold a chair in Molecular Astrophysics. Viti will build a research group that c...
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Leiden Observatory launches online summer programme for kidsThis summer, the Universe is closer than ever. With the online astronomy summer programme Space in Your Living Room!, the Leiden Observatory brings as...
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Europe to foster the Social-Economical Impact of AstronomyThe European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (E-ROAD) has held its first conference session at the 2020 virtual Annual Meeting of the Eur...
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EAS 2020 in Leiden: the largest online astronomy meeting ever
Over 1600 astronomers and space scientists will gather online from 29 June until 3 July for the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (E...