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New podcast about astronomy for the greater good 21 July 2022How does astronomy benefit you? The new single-episode podcast Cosmic Perspectives explores the impact of Dutch astronomy on society: from building po...
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Ewine van Dishoeck goes stargazing 15 July 2022From the birth of the universe to the molecules in a planet's atmosphere. The first five pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show the ...
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Spinoza Prize for astrophysicist Ignas Snellen 17 June 2022With his clever measuring methods Ignas Snellen – together with his team – was the first to detect carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of exoplanets. Fo...
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Gaia sees strange stars in most detailed Milky Way survey to date 13 June 2022Today, ESA’s Gaia mission releases its new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy. Astronomers, led by the Leiden astronomer Anthony Brown, desc...
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Inmates get a chance to peek at the night sky 02 June 2022If you walk along the Hooglandse Kerkgracht in the coming months, you will see a metal box completely out of tune with rest of the landscape. It seem...
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Video series: Collaboration with China in daily practice 31 May 2022What are the benefits for us of collaboration with Chinese partners? What sparks off Leiden researchers' interest in collaborating with colleagues in ...
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A celebration of light, peace and the night sky 17 May 2022The International Day of Light (IDL) celebrates the ubiquitous role light has in our lives. From Argentina to South Africa, Japan and Pakistan, severa...
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Planeetvormende schijven evolueren verrassend vergelijkbaar 06 May 2022Our solar system probably evolved in the same way as most of the other planetary systems around us. This has been shown by German-Austrian-Dutch resea...
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‘All of Leiden will join in with the Seeing Stars experiment’ 02 May 2022What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what...
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First MIRI-image by the James Webb Space Telescope 29 April 2022The alignment of the James Webb Space Telescope is complete. The space observatory is able to capture sharp, well-directed images with each of its fou...
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Life cycle of comets near other star resembles that of our solar system 28 April 2022The life cycle of comets near the star Beta Pictoris is similar to that of comets in our own solar system. This is the conclusion of a team of astrono...
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ERC Advanced Grants for four Leiden researchers 26 April 2022From a new generation of antibiotics and more-effective vaccines to a map of dark matter and new light on Hindu traditions. Four researchers from Leid...
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ERC Advanced Grant for dark matter research 26 April 2022Dark matter. Something invisible that, according to calculations, comprises about 85% of the matter in the universe. With an ERC Advanced Grant of €2....
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Astrophotography for beginners 12 April 2022Last week was the opening of SNAP! The night sky through a Leidener’s lens. The exhibition, located in a library in the Stevenshof, shows how astropho...
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives Fritz Zwicky prize for astrophysics & cosmology 11 March 2022The Fritz Zwicky Prize 2022 for Astrophysics & Cosmology has been awarded to Prof. Ewine F. van Dishoeck for her pioneering, decades-long work in astr...