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Inmates get a chance to peek at the night sky02 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 practice31 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 sky17 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 vergelijkbaar06 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 Telescope29 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 system28 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 researchers26 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 research26 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 beginners12 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 & cosmology11 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...
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'If you think astronomy is a man's world, then it's your job to make a change'08 March 2022During her master's thesis, Nashanty Brunken (24) worked in a team with five other women. With this female team, they discovered the largest molecule ...
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Astronomers discover largest molecule yet in a planet-forming disc08 March 2022Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time d...
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Flurry of new discoveries as incredible new image revealing 4.4 million galaxies is made public28 February 2022Over a seven year period an international team of scientists has mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR),...
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No exams or lectures, but building a radio telescope with empty paint cans22 February 2022No more lectures and exams for the Radio Astronomy course taught by Michiel Brentjens. The corona crisis is a moment of reflection that has changed hi...