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Artificial brain helps Gaia satellite catch speeding stars26 June 2017With the help of software that mimics a human brain, ESA’s Gaia satellite spotted six stars zipping at high speed from the centre of our Galaxy to its...
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Cosmic recipe discovered for making glycerol22 June 2017A team of laboratory astrophysicists from Leiden University managed to make glycerol under conditions comparable to those in dark interstellar clouds....
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PhD prize for astronomer Adrian Hamers19 June 2017Adrian Hamer, who obtained his PhD in the group of Simon Portegies Zwart on 21 June 2016, receives a prestigious PhD thesis award prize of the Interna...
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What the galaxy will look like billions of years from now15 June 2017What’s the fate of our sun, when in 5 billion years from now our Milky Way will clash with the Andromeda Galaxy? Leiden astronomers have been working ...
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Traces of building block of life found around infant suns09 June 2017ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate - a chemical building block of lif...
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ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars08 June 2017ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate - a chemical building block of lif...
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Two Vidi's at Sterrewacht30 May 2017Jordy Bouwman and future Sterrewachter Reinout van Weeren have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of research.
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Vidis for eleven Leiden researchers30 May 2017Eleven talented Leiden researchers with several years of research experience have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of re...
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Working with datasets that are larger than the entire university30 May 2017Radio telescope LOFAR maps the sky. It produces incredibly detailed images of the universe - and vast amounts of data. Huub Röttgering, director of th...
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First Stone Ceremony for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope27 May 2017Director General of ESO, Tim de Zeeuw received President of the Republic of Chile, Michelle Bachelet Jeria for a ceremony marking the first stone of E...
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Oortlezing May 11, 201706 April 2017The yearly Oortlezing, in the memory of the famous Dutch astronomer, is organized by the Stichting Het Jan Hendrik Oort Fonds and Leiden Observatory. ...
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Netherlands' smallest supercomputer05 April 2017A team of Dutch scientists has built a supercomputer the size of four pizza boxes. The Little Green Machine II has the computing power of 10,000 PCs a...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions23 March 2017Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Need advice about anything?22 March 2017
Get free advice of Leiden alumni about your career, applying for a job, social networking, or anything else! The Mentor Network is an online platform ...
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Premiere: Astronomy on Tap Leiden21 March 2017Having a drink in a cafe and at the same time learning something about astronomy: this is Astronomy on Tap. The first edition in Leiden will take plac...