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Scientists discover the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way 16 April 2024A European team of astronomers has discovered the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way. It is more than thirty times as massive as our sun and ...
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Student cleans up archival data and uncovers two stellar cocoons 03 April 2024While investigating 16 years of images of young stars from a retired astronomical camera, Leiden master's student Sam de Regt discovered that two of t...
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Stunning James Webb images show birth and death of massive stars 25 March 2024The James Webb Space Telescope continues to surprise us with stunning pictures, but of what exactly? Astronomer Nienke van der Marel shows with three ...
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New generation galaxy formation simulations on the horizon – Evgenii Chaikin received his doctorate with honours 21 March 2024Simulations of galaxy formation provide much more information about galaxies than a telescope. Simulations have been improving significantly in recent...
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Webb detects icy ingredients for making potential habitable worlds 13 March 2024An international team of astronomers, led by Will Rocha of Leiden Observatory, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that ...
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The mysteries of exoplanets and supermassive black holes: two Vici grants for Leiden Observatory 07 March 2024One unravels the origin of the largest black holes in the universe, the other investigates the influence of stellar wind on the atmosphere of exoplane...
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UV radiation from massive stars prevents formation of Jupiter-like planet 01 March 2024An international team of scientists, including Xander Tielens of Leiden Observatory, has used space telescope Hubble and the ALMA observatory to show ...
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University 29 February 2024From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the...
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Michiel Hogerheijde temporary programme director MSc Astronomy 24 January 2024Michiel Hogerheijde has been appointed temporary programme director of the Astronomy master's programme from 1 January to 1 September 2024. He takes o...
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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow 18 January 2024The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images re...
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In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 – 2023: Unlocking the Chemistry of the Heavens 03 January 2024With great sadness we share the news that Prof. Harold Linnartz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 31 December 2023. We are all in shock,...
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Black holes are sometimes gigantic volcanoes. Martijn Oei earned his PhD on the subject, with honours 21 December 2023Not everything that comes close to a black hole is swallowed by it. Black holes can also hurl material away, and that chance turns out to be considera...
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‘The questions and ideas from students also make me a better researcher’ 07 December 2023‘Yamila Miguel brings along immense enthusiasm that sparks over to the students in the lectures,’ her students say about her. ‘She inspires us as scie...
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Galaxies have bipolar gas outflows far into intergalactic space 06 December 2023For the first time, astronomers have observed in three dimensions that gas from spiral galaxies is blown upwards and downwards at high speed, far out ...
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First detailed picture of ice in planet-forming disk 06 December 2023An international team of astronomers led by Ardjan Sturm of the Observatory has made the first two-dimensional inventory of ice in a planet-forming di...