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ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers residency at Leiden Observatory 25 June 2020
The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is now offering artists working with Artificial Intelligence the chance for a residency at the Leiden Observa...
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Three Leiden Science projects receive computing time on national supercomputers 16 June 2020
A night sky of more than 40 petabytes in size, simulating young star clusters and understanding how the body inhibits viruses: three Leiden projects h...
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ESO instrument METIS passes important design milestone 05 June 2020
The METIS instrument that’s being built for ESO's future Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Northern Chile under the leadership of the Dutch Research ...
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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy Fund 19 May 2020
The projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific act...
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Astronomy in corona times: 'All the big telescopes were at a standstill.' 12 May 2020
Astronomer Ignas Snellen studies exoplanets using telescope observations. But how is that possible when all the big telescopes are more or less at a s...
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First time methane ice formed in Leiden under space conditions 13 April 2020
An international team of astronomers has shown in a laboratory at Leiden University (the Netherlands) that methane can form on icy dust particles in s...
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Keep busy with these astronomy activities you can do from home 02 April 2020
Stuck at home with little to do? Don’t worry, because we have the perfect space related activities you can do from home, alone or with your family, in...
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Hubble fellowship at NASA for Emiel Por 30 March 2020
Astronomy PhD candidate Emiel Por has been selected by NASA as one of the 24 Hubble fellows in 2020. He will be conducting research at the American Sp...
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Why turning back time is not always possible 23 March 2020
If three or more objects move around each other, history cannot be reversed. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers based on c...
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Enjoy the photo exhibition in the Old Observatory from home 19 March 2020
Two radio telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginia have brought together a few remarkable people. A new photo exhibition in the Old Observatory visitor...
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Here is how you can help astronomers to identify black holes 17 March 2020
Scientists are asking your help to find the origin of hundreds of thousands of galaxies that have been discovered by the largest radio telescope ever ...
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Astronomer Jorryt Matthee receives MERAC Prize for best thesis 06 March 2020
Dutch astronomer Jorryt Matthee will receive the European MERAC Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in observational astrophysics. Matthee received his doc...
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This is how ESA telescope Euclid is going to visualise dark matter 25 February 2020
How can you see something that’s invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the Universe and teach us more abou...
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LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environments 18 February 2020
Using the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science Day 14 February 2020
Working on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...