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Dutch ‘big data’ telescope finds exoplanets 07 July 2017Astronomers 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 2017The 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 2017Two 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 2017With 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 2017A 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 2017Adrian 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 2017What’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 ...
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Traces of building block of life found around infant suns 09 June 2017ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate - a chemical building block of lif...
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Two Vidi's at Sterrewacht 30 May 2017Jordy Bouwman and future Sterrewachter Reinout van Weeren have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of research.
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Vidis for eleven Leiden researchers 30 May 2017Eleven talented Leiden researchers with several years of research experience have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of re...
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Working with datasets that are larger than the entire university 30 May 2017Radio telescope LOFAR maps the sky. It produces incredibly detailed images of the universe - and vast amounts of data. Huub Röttgering, director of th...
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First Stone Ceremony for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope 27 May 2017Director General of ESO, Tim de Zeeuw received President of the Republic of Chile, Michelle Bachelet Jeria for a ceremony marking the first stone of E...
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Oortlezing May 11, 2017 06 April 2017The yearly Oortlezing, in the memory of the famous Dutch astronomer, is organized by the Stichting Het Jan Hendrik Oort Fonds and Leiden Observatory. ...
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Netherlands' smallest supercomputer 05 April 2017A team of Dutch scientists has built a supercomputer the size of four pizza boxes. The Little Green Machine II has the computing power of 10,000 PCs a...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions 23 March 2017Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...