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ERC Advanced Grant for six Leiden researchers 22 April 2021
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to six Leiden researchers. It awards these significant grants to established princip...
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Giant planet at large distance from sun-like star puzzles astronomers 19 April 2021
A team of astronomers led by Dutch scientists have directly imaged a giant planet orbiting at a large distance around a sun-like star. Why this planet...
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Black holes like to eat, but have a variety of table manners 13 April 2021
All supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies appear to have periods when they swallow matter from their close surroundings. But that is abo...
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Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds 09 April 2021
Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interste...
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Ultra-sensitive radio images reveal thousands of star-forming galaxies in early Universe 08 April 2021
An international team of astronomers has published the most sensitive images of the Universe ever taken at low radio frequencies, using the Internatio...
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Many planetary systems prematurely evaporate into thin air 26 March 2021
When stars are born, large clouds of gas and dust form that are known as circumstellar discs. Research by PhD candidate Francisca Concha-RamÃrez shows...
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Astronomers map the cosmic spider web 18 March 2021
An international team of astronomers from Leiden Observatory and others, has for the first time mapped a piece of the dark, cosmic web. The research s...
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Closing the skills gap for young researchers through innovation and entrepreneurship training 12 March 2021
The EU-funded project SKIES (SKilled, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Scientists) will train astronomy graduate students in transferable skills for aca...
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Neutrino linked to black hole that devours star 23 February 2021
For only the second time ever, astronomers have linked a neutrino to an object outside our Milky Way. These observations were made using telescopes bo...
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Astronomers see star with dust disk that is still being fed 22 February 2021
An international team of astronomers including Leiden scientists publishes the image of a young star with a surrounding dust disk that is still being ...
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Astronomers publish map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes 19 February 2021
An international team of astronomers has published a map of the sky showing over 25,000 supermassive black holes. The map, to be published in the jour...
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BBC Science Focus names Ewine van Dishoeck as one of the six women who are changing chemistry 12 February 2021
On the occasion of the Women & Girls in Science Day, BBC Science Focus Magazine highlighted 6 prominent female chemists. Among them is Leiden professo...
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Astronomers see whirlwind around possible exoplanet-in-the-making 28 January 2021
An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Leiden University has discovered a whirlwind of dust and pebbles in orbit around a yo...
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Astronomers finally measure polarised light from exoplanet 12 January 2021
An international team led by Leiden astronomers has, after years of searching and defying the boundaries of a telescope, for the first time directly c...
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Royal Astronomical Society honours team behind first picture black hole with 2021 Group Achievement Award 11 January 2021
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration receives the 2021 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award. In April 2019, the EHT team pres...