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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy Fund19 May 2020The 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.'12 May 2020Astronomer 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 conditions13 April 2020An 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 home02 April 2020Stuck 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 Por30 March 2020Astronomy 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 possible23 March 2020If 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 home19 March 2020Two 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 holes17 March 2020Scientists 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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Special Earthly life on display in Old Observatory photo exhibition12 March 2020Two radio telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginiahave brought together a few remarkable people. A new photo exhibition in the Old Observatory visitor ...
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Astronomer Jorryt Matthee receives MERAC Prize for best thesis06 March 2020Dutch 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 matter25 February 2020How 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 environments18 February 2020Using 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 Day14 February 2020Working 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 objects12 February 2020Three 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 star03 February 2020Up 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...