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Astronomy student searches for giant rings with pictures from 1890 15 October 2018
Meticulous analysis of hundreds of photographic plates from the star J1407 between 1890 and 2007 show no stellar eclipses. Robin Mentel, a master stud...
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First Leiden Science Family Day: glitter gel, virtual reality and ice-cold clouds 09 October 2018
The first Leiden Science Family Day on Saturday 6 October was a great success. During the ‘Weekend of Science’ more than 700 visitors, including 350 c...
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies 02 October 2018
A team of Leiden astronomers used the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way, bu...
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Harold Linnartz new Programme Director of Leiden Observatory 02 October 2018
A logical next step and a new challenge: Harold Linnartz is ready for his new position as Programme Director (PD) of the Leiden Observatory. He will f...
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A Universe aglow 01 October 2018
Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding d...
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First images of mist dispersing around young galaxy 17 September 2018
Galaxies in the early universe are shrouded in a kind of mist: a cloud of hydrogen. With galaxies in the later universe this mist has disappeared. Ast...
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The sky is not the limit: 230 000 people reached by Leiden University educational space project 13 September 2018
Science education project Space Awareness engaged 230,000 people in 68 countries with the excitement and challenges of space sciences and technologies...
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives prestigious Kavli Prize 05 September 2018
Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics, was presented with the Kavli Prize by King Harald V of Norway during a ceremony on 4 Septembe...
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K.J. Cath Prize: making a difference by communicating science 03 September 2018
Astronomer and science communicator Pedro Russo is awarded the K.J Cath Prize and € 2,500 for his outreach efforts that bring science to the general p...
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Cosmologists propose new way to form primordial black holes 29 August 2018
What is dark matter? How do supermassive black holes form? ‘Primordial’ black holes might hold the answer to these long-standing questions. Leiden and...
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Exhibition celebrates a century of astronomical discoveries 22 August 2018
Some of the most significant and surprising astronomical breakthroughs that have shaped science, technology and culture over the last century are show...
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science 15 August 2018
Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Astronomers discover furthest radio galaxy ever 07 August 2018
After almost twenty years the record for the most distant radio galaxy has been broken. A team of astronomers led by Leiden PhD candidate Aayush Saxen...
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Discovering new physics in extremely bright neutron stars 07 August 2018
Astronomer Alexander Mushtukov, currently working at the University of Amsterdam, received a Veni grant of 250,000 euro’s which he will execute in Lei...
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Beijing Normal University visits Leiden for Astronomy Summer School 26 July 2018
The Leiden Observatory was very pleased to welcome eight bachelor’s students from Beijing Normal University at 8 July for the BNU Astronomy Summer Sch...