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Experience one hundred years of astronomy at the Old ObservatoryHow big is the universe? How do stars form and evolve? And does life exist elsewhere in the Universe? These main questions in astronomy are the themes...
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Astronomers capture first image of a black holeFor the first time, astronomers have managed to take a photo of a supermassive black hole and its shadow. They used the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT),...
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From proof-of-concept to solving astronomical mysteriesSRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. In 2021, the Utrecht branch will settle in South Holland. Assistant professor at TU Delft, Ak...
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Young stars in the Orion Nebula are practicing birth controlAstronomers from Leiden University have discovered that the star wind from a newborn star in the Orion Nebula prevents more stars from forming in the ...
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Explore the universe in VRNavigating through the universe with VR glasses? It is possible, with the help of the new computer application built by Marc Driessen, a Computer Scie...
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxiesA team of Leiden astronomers used the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way, bu...
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A Universe aglowDeep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding d...
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First images of mist dispersing around young galaxyGalaxies in the early universe are shrouded in a kind of mist: a cloud of hydrogen. With galaxies in the later universe this mist has disappeared. Ast...
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K.J. Cath Prize: making a difference by communicating scienceAstronomer 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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Discovering new physics in extremely bright neutron starsAstronomer 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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Veni grant for research into the youngest exoplanetsThe 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’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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Planet formation starts before a star is fully grownA 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 materialAstronomers 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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Dancing with giants: dynamics of dwarf satellite galaxiesDwarf satellite galaxies in the Milky Way perform different dances than researchers initially expected. Marius Cautun from Durham University received ...