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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 everOver 1600 astronomers and space scientists will gather online from 29 June until 3 July for the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (E...
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ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers residency at Leiden ObservatoryThe European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is now offering artists working with Artificial Intelligence the chance for a residency at the Leiden Observa...
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Three Leiden Science projects receive computing time on national supercomputersA night sky of more than 40 petabytes in size, simulating young star clusters and understanding how the body inhibits viruses: three Leiden projects h...
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ESO instrument METIS passes important design milestoneThe METIS instrument that’s being built for ESO's future Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Northern Chile under the leadership of the Dutch Research ...
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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy FundThe projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific act...
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Astronomy in corona times: 'All the big telescopes were at a standstill.'Astronomer Ignas Snellen studies exoplanets using telescope observations. But how is that possible when all the big telescopes are more or less at a s...
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First time methane ice formed in Leiden under space conditionsAn international team of astronomers has shown in a laboratory at Leiden University (the Netherlands) that methane can form on icy dust particles in s...
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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 ...