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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 disc 08 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 public 28 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 cans 22 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...
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Leiden’s Astronomy and Society group develops new materials for public engagement trainers 21 February 2022Do you practice public engagement? The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has just released a unique set of open-source materials designed to be u...
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Dutch researchers uncover hidden supermassive black hole 16 February 2022An international team of astronomers led by Violeta Gámez Rosas (Leiden University) has observed a supermassive black hole hidden in a ring of dust. T...
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Astronomers find largest radio galaxy ever 16 February 2022By a stroke of luck, a team led by Dutch PhD student Martijn Oei has discovered a radio galaxy of at least 16 million lightyears long. The pair of pla...
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Ewine van Dishoeck in children's book: 'Follow your heart and make sure you become very good at something' 15 February 2022Professor of Molecular Astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck is portrayed as a heroine in a pictorial children's book. ‘It starts with a dream' tells the st...
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New detection method for quasars in the early Universe 09 February 2022Astronomers from Leiden Observatory have developed a new method to find distant quasars and better distinguish them from other objects that look like ...
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Astronomy through a pinhole 01 February 2022You can make some astounding images using just a box with a hole. Inspired by the celebration of Leiden as the European City of Science, Professor Mat...
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A much sharper picture of the universe with new algorithms and supercomputers 31 January 2022With new algorithms and supercomputers, an incredibly detailed radio map of the universe was created. Now astronomers can look at radio data of galaxi...
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Tracing space ice and the building blocks of life 21 January 2022An unprecedented space telescope, an astrolab that makes space ice and molecules that may lead to the origin of life… The Ice Age project has all the ...
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From the birth of galaxies to an IMAX movie on the big screen. Leiden partnership wins award from the Royal Astronomical Society 14 January 2022Simulation project EAGLE has won the 2022 Group Achievement Award of the Royal Astronomical Society. EAGLE is a large collection of simulations about ...
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The launch of a new era: Leiden and the James Webb telescope (part II) 23 December 2021After 25 years, December will finally see the launch of the long-awaited James Webb space telescope. Leiden astronomers are watching with great excite...
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The launch of a new era: Leiden and the James Webb telescope (Part I) 17 December 2021
After 25 years, this December will finally see the launch of the long-awaited James Webb space telescope (JWST). Leiden astronomers are watching with ...