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Universe Awareness’ Universe in a Box wins Best Science Education Resource Award 28 May 2015
Universe in a Box has been recognised for its educational value by Scientix — the European Network of Science Education. Universe in a Box is the low-...
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Universe Awareness finalist van de WISE Awards 2015 13 May 2015
Universe Awareness is one of fifteen projects chosen by WISE for providing compelling and innovative solutions to today’s most pressing challenges in ...
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Giant cosmic tsunami wakes up comatose galaxies 30 April 2015
Galaxies are often found in clusters, which contain many “red and dead” members that stopped forming stars in the distant past. Now, an international ...
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Complex Organic Molecules Discovered in Infant Star System 09 April 2015
For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surroun...
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Cheering for the sun at the Leiden Observatory 20 March 2015
Staring into the clouds hoping for a glimpse of the sun, cheering in encouragement, video recordings: there was no shortage of things to do at the Lei...
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4 Vici awards for Leiden researchers 13 February 2015
Chemist Alexander Kros and astronomer Joop Schaye are two of the four Leiden researchers who have been awarded a Vici as part of NWO's Innovation Rese...
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Gigantic ring system discovered around exoplanet J1407b 27 January 2015
Astronomers from the Leiden Observatory and from the University of Rochester (in the US) have discovered that the planetary ring system that covered t...
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Let the sun shine in Leiden! 26 January 2015
The Leiden Observatory is starting a crowdfunding campaign to raise enough money to construct a new telescope.
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‘Discoverer of the Year’, best dissertation and Education Award 2014 06 January 2015
At the New Year’s reception of the Faculty of Science on 6 January, it was announced that Annelien Zweemer, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, ...
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Spinoza prize for Leiden astronomer Xander Tielens 04 June 2012
Leiden astronomer Xander Tielens has been awarded a Spinoza prize, the highest scientific prize in the Netherlands. Tielens is Professor in the Physic...
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Ewine van Dishoeck appointed Academy Professor 04 April 2012
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) has awarded an Academy Professorship to Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Le...
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Harold Linnartz Professor of Laboratory Astrophysics 16 August 2011
The Executive Board has appointed Professor Harold Linnartz as Professor of Laboratory Physics with effect from 1 June 2011. Linnartz has worked since...
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Shedding light on the dark side of the universe 25 January 2011
It must be there. We just cannot see it: mysterious dark matter and dark energy in the universe. Henk Hoekstra is one of the many cosmologists who wou...
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Superstorm on exoplanet 30 June 2010
Dutch astronomers have measured a superstorm for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, the well-studied “hot Jupiter” HD209458b. The very ...
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Spinoza winner Marijn Franx to use successor to Hubble 07 June 2010
A permanent exhibition on the place of humans in the cosmos. This is something Franx wants to use his Spinoza Prize for. ‘So much progress has been ma...