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Ewine van Dishoeck receives prestigious Kavli Prize 05 September 2018
Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics, was presented with the Kavli Prize by King Harald V of Norway during a ceremony on 4 Septembe...
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K.J. Cath Prize: making a difference by communicating science 03 September 2018
Astronomer and science communicator Pedro Russo is awarded the K.J Cath Prize and € 2,500 for his outreach efforts that bring science to the general p...
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Cosmologists propose new way to form primordial black holes 29 August 2018
What is dark matter? How do supermassive black holes form? ‘Primordial’ black holes might hold the answer to these long-standing questions. Leiden and...
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Exhibition celebrates a century of astronomical discoveries 22 August 2018
Some of the most significant and surprising astronomical breakthroughs that have shaped science, technology and culture over the last century are show...
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science 15 August 2018
Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Astronomers discover furthest radio galaxy ever 07 August 2018
After almost twenty years the record for the most distant radio galaxy has been broken. A team of astronomers led by Leiden PhD candidate Aayush Saxen...
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Discovering new physics in extremely bright neutron stars 07 August 2018
Astronomer Alexander Mushtukov, currently working at the University of Amsterdam, received a Veni grant of 250,000 euro’s which he will execute in Lei...
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Beijing Normal University visits Leiden for Astronomy Summer School 26 July 2018
The Leiden Observatory was very pleased to welcome eight bachelor’s students from Beijing Normal University at 8 July for the BNU Astronomy Summer Sch...
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Veni grant for research into the youngest exoplanets 16 July 2018
The 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’ 13 July 2018
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 all 02 July 2018
In 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 grown 25 June 2018
A 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 material 20 June 2018
Astronomers 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 light 19 June 2018
Many 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 18 June 2018
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...