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A 120 year old telescope gets a makeover 31 August 2017
For the first time in over half a century, one of oldest telescopes at the Leiden Observatory is getting a major improvement.
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Michiel Hogerheijde, professor by special appointment of Instrumental Astronomy UVA 23 August 2017
Dr M.R. Hogerheijde (1971) has been named professor by special appointment of Instrumental Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA)’s Faculty of...
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Henk Hoekstra appointed Professor Observational Cosmology 21 August 2017
Astronomer Henk Hoekstra has been appointed Professor Observational Cosmology at the Leiden Observatory with effect from 1 August.
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Leiden through the eyes of Matthew Fields 16 August 2017
Matthew Fields, from Philadelphia, US, came to Leiden to study astronomy as part of the Euroscholars scheme. 'I came here to gain valuable research ex...
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Obtaining a PhD at Teylers Museum at age of 68 01 August 2017
Most people would not even consider it, starting a PhD at the age of 62. However, for the former Teylers Museum curator Bert Sliggers it was like a dr...
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Five Veni awards for Leiden Science researchers 31 July 2017
Five promising researchers at Leiden's Faculty of Science have received a Veni award from NWO. They can use the award - of up to 250,000 euros - to ca...
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches 28 July 2017
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This awa...
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First Open Science Centre engages rural communities with science 12 July 2017
The first location of the Open Science Centre network was opened on 7 July in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Portugal. A Portuguese Minister and a State...
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Dutch ‘big data’ telescope finds exoplanets 07 July 2017
Astronomers at Leiden University have discovered the first planets using a new instrument: the planet hunter MASCARA. This instrument, developed at Le...
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Space mission for gravitational waves gets green light 29 June 2017
The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved the proposal for gravitational wave detector LISA. The launch for the space detector is planned in 2034. ...
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Orbiting black holes explained with super computer 27 June 2017
Two black holes, in close orbit around each other. Have they slowly drifted together, or did they emerge from two orbiting stars? Together with to col...
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Artificial brain helps Gaia satellite catch speeding stars 26 June 2017
With the help of software that mimics a human brain, ESA’s Gaia satellite spotted six stars zipping at high speed from the centre of our Galaxy to its...
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Cosmic recipe discovered for making glycerol 22 June 2017
A team of laboratory astrophysicists from Leiden University managed to make glycerol under conditions comparable to those in dark interstellar clouds....
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PhD prize for astronomer Adrian Hamers 19 June 2017
Adrian Hamer, who obtained his PhD in the group of Simon Portegies Zwart on 21 June 2016, receives a prestigious PhD thesis award prize of the Interna...
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What the galaxy will look like billions of years from now 15 June 2017
What’s the fate of our sun, when in 5 billion years from now our Milky Way will clash with the Andromeda Galaxy? Leiden astronomers have been working ...