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Neutrino linked to black hole that devours star 23 February 2021For 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 2021An 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 2021An 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 2021On 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 2021An 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 2021An 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 2021The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration receives the 2021 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award. In April 2019, the EHT team pres...
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives the Jules Janssen Prize 2020 08 January 2021The 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 2020A 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 2020Cornelia 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 2020At 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 2020From 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 2020The 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 2020The 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 2020Professor Ignas Snellen has developed an online platform where exoplanet researchers can post videos about their work: exoplanet-talks.org. ‘For young...