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In Leiden, Indigenous artists share their view of the night sky 14 October 2021
On Saturday October 16, the special exhibition ‘Shared Sky: Canvases of the Universe’ opens in the Old Observatory in Leiden. The exhibit takes a cult...
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Astronomers see disk around young super-Jupiter which may form moons 13 October 2021
An international team of astronomers led by scientists from Leiden Observatory has for the first time characterised a dust disk surrounding a young su...
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Auroras on nineteen stars hint at hidden exoplanets 11 October 2021
An international team of scientists including Leiden's Joe Callingham has discovered nineteen red dwarf stars that unexpectedly emit radio waves. The ...
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The hunt for an earth-like exoplanet 30 September 2021
Astronomer Frans Snik searches for extraterrestrial life. He doesn’t so much look at stars as at the ‘exoplanets’ alongside them.
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Can astronomers limit climate change? 24 September 2021
Can astronomers mitigate climate change? This is what Leiden astronomer Leonard Burtscher and his colleagues discussed at the annual meeting of the Eu...
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Astronomer Joe Callingham testifies against killer stars in new show on Discovery Channel 17 September 2021
On Friday evening 17 September, Leiden astronomer Joe Callingham can be seen in a new series on Discovery channel. Killers of the Cosmos is about diff...
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Frustrated scientists convince astronomy journal to implement trans inclusive name change policy 10 September 2021
A group of united astronomers have successfully convinced Europe’s leading astronomy journal Astronomy & Astrophysics to institute a name change polic...
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The Old Observatory Leiden in LEGO? You can make it happen! 07 September 2021
Every week, Uwe Hensch walks past the Old Observatory in Leiden. In corona times, he decided to make a LEGO design of the historic building. His desig...
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Ewine van Dishoeck after pontifical appointment: ‘Science and religion can coexist’ 19 August 2021
Pope Francis has appointed astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She joins an illustrious list of Nobel Prize winners, ...
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Supermassive black holes and powerful telescopes: new Professor Joe Hennawi 30 July 2021
Meet the newest Full Professor at the Leiden Observatory: Joe Hennawi. All the way from Santa Barbara, California, Hennawi will strengthen the astrono...
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How to attract stargazing tourists? Leiden Observatory launches a new manual for astrotourism 20 July 2021
How to create an unforgettable astronomy experience for tourists? And how to create fun activities that also have scientific and educational value? T...
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First measurement of isotopes in atmosphere of exoplanet 14 July 2021
An international team of astronomers have become the first in the world to detect isotopes in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. It concerns different fo...
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Award for finding the most extreme stellar object in the Universe 13 July 2021
Joseph Callingham from the Leiden Observatory receives the Louise Webster Prize for outstanding post-doctoral research. The prize is awarded by the As...
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Bridging Sri Lanka and The Netherlands through astronomy 01 July 2021
'Find your way from the stars’, an online workshop on Nautical Astronomy, was one of the winners of The Netherlands Online Cultural Challenge 2020. Th...
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Open Science Hub receives 2021 Medal of Scientific Merit in Portugal 29 June 2021
Open Science Hub, a science education project coordinated by Leiden University, has won the 2021 Portuguese Medal of Scientific Merit for its contribu...