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Veni grant for research into the youngest exoplanets16 July 2018The 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 2018SRON 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 all02 July 2018In 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 grown25 June 2018A 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 material20 June 2018Astronomers 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 light19 June 2018Many 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 exploration18 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...
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Dancing with giants: dynamics of dwarf satellite galaxies14 June 2018Dwarf satellite galaxies in the Milky Way perform different dances than researchers initially expected. Marius Cautun from Durham University received ...
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Broad media coverage for Kavli prize Ewine van Dishoeck07 June 2018Ewine van Dishoeck was broadly covered in national and international media with her prestigious Kavli prize for astrophysics. She won 1 million dollar...
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Celebrating the International Day of Light in the Old Observatory06 June 2018On 16 May the first International Day of Light was celebrated all around the globe. Initiated by UNESCO, organisations in 87 different countries set u...
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Ewine van Dishoeck wins Kavli prize for astrophysics31 May 2018How are stars and planets formed? Is life outside Earth possible? These questions are being researched by Professor of Molecular Astrophysics Ewine va...
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Marie Curie grant for dark matter22 May 2018Leiden Observatory is going to use a new technique to carry out calculations on gravitational lensing measurements. They will do this is the context o...
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Ewine van Dishoeck in Board of Trustees Institute for Advanced Study17 May 2018The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed astronomer and chemist Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck to its Board of Trustees, effective 5 May, 2018.
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Royal honour for astronomer Tim de Zeeuw15 May 2018Leiden astronomer Tim de Zeeuw has been appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He received the distinction on 14 May to mark his departure a...
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Oort Lecturer 2018: James Kasting about the search for life on planets around other stars08 May 2018If there is life outside our galaxy, how could we find it? In his Oort Lecture, James Kasting talks about his search for simple life on other planets....