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Mariska Kriek is back – but this time as a professor11 November 2021She left Leiden after her PhD and now, 14 years later, she returns as Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy. Mariska Kriek investigates how galaxies or...
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Christiaan Huygens episode Het Klokhuis recorded at Leiden Observatory02 November 2021The Klokhuis dedicates a special episode to Leiden alumnus and famous scientist Christiaan Huygens. Part of the episode was recorded at the Leiden Obs...
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Towards molecular complexity in birth places of stars: Formaldehyde formation from carbon atoms reacting with water ice02 November 2021Scientists at Leiden University (Netherlands), Stuttgart University (Germany) and Ural Federal University (Russia) have successfully put forward a nov...
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A+ for Leiden astronomy student who simulated chaotic interactions of black holes20 October 2021Leiden astronomy Master's student Arend Moerman has received an A+ for his thesis research on the simulation of chaotic interactions of three black ho...
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Volcanic ‘activity’ in black holes blows monumental bubbles of hundreds of thousands of light-years19 October 2021An international team of researchers observed the full extent of the evolution of hot gas produced by an active black hole for the first time. As it e...
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In Leiden, Indigenous artists share their view of the night sky14 October 2021On 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 moons13 October 2021An 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 exoplanets11 October 2021An 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 exoplanet30 September 2021Astronomer 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 2021Can 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 Channel17 September 2021On 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 policy10 September 2021A 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 2021Every 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 2021Pope 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 Hennawi30 July 2021Meet the newest Full Professor at the Leiden Observatory: Joe Hennawi. All the way from Santa Barbara, California, Hennawi will strengthen the astrono...