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Ewine van Dishoeck receives the Jules Janssen Prize 2020 08 January 2021
The French Astronomical Society SAF (Société Astronomique de France) has awarded its international astronomy prize, the Jules Janssen Prize, to Leiden...
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Dutch collaboration wins HPC Innovation Excellence Award for the first time 21 December 2020
A Dutch collaboration, including the SURF Open Innovation Lab and Leiden Observatory, has won Hyperion Research's HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Thi...
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The real value of the telescope-on-a-plane 10 December 2020
Cornelia Pabst is a PhD candidate at Leiden Observatory, whose research is based around primary data taken by instruments onboard SOFIA, an airplane-b...
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‘Connect to at least one other person’ 10 December 2020
At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchers 09 December 2020
From fake news via WhatsApp to mini hearts from a 3D printer: four Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research ...
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Catching stars to reveal the secrets of the darkness: ERC Consolidator for Elena Maria Rossi 09 December 2020
The centre of our Galaxy is so dark and dense that it is almost impossible to observe what is inside. By catching the rare hypervelocity stars that ar...
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International outreach project IAU100 awarded with Dutch Communication Award 01 December 2020
The international astronomy outreach project IAU100 has won the first Communication Award by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The initiative was foun...
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A YouTube channel for exoplanet researchers 30 November 2020
Professor Ignas Snellen has developed an online platform where exoplanet researchers can post videos about their work: exoplanet-talks.org. ‘For young...
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4.9 milion euros for unraveling the mysteries of black holes 25 November 2020
The Dutch Black Holes Consortium receives 4.9 million euros from NWO for unravelling the mysteries of black holes and other mysteries of the universe....
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Glycine in space produced by dark chemistry 16 November 2020
An international team of laboratory astrophysicists and astrochemical modellers has shown that glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important build...
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First direct detection of a brown dwarf with a radio telescope 09 November 2020
Astronomers at ASTRON and Leiden University have used the LOFAR radio telescope to discover a 'brown dwarf' – a faint object more massive than Jupiter...
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Veni grants for eleven Leiden researchers 05 November 2020
Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...
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Leiden University signs agreement with Tsinghua to co-foster PhDs in astronomy 03 November 2020
On 26 October, Leiden University held its first online signing ceremony, signing an agreement with China’s top university Tsinghua to establish a join...
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Astronomers see gigantic collisions of galaxy clusters in young universe 02 November 2020
An international team of researchers led by Leiden University (the Netherlands) has mapped nine gigantic collisions of galaxy clusters. The collisions...
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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research 23 October 2020
The origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...