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Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers 14 December 2021Ten Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant, of up to 280,000 euros, will enable them to elab...
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These Science students excelled and won a KHMW Young Talent Prize 06 December 2021No fewer than seven Leiden FWN students received a Young Talent Award from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences on Monday, 29 November. Mark van den Bo...
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Leiden project wins international astronomy engagement award 02 December 2021The online summer programme Space in Your Living Room by Leiden Observatory has won the first prize ‘Most Innovative Event’ of the Astronomy@Home Awar...
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These eleven Leiden Science researchers are among the most highly cited 19 November 2021Eleven researchers of the Faculty of Science are on the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list of Clarivate Analytics. Only 0.1 per cent of researchers ar...
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Mariska Kriek is back – but this time as a professor 11 November 2021She left Leiden after her PhD and now, 14 years later, she returns as Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy. Mariska Kriek investigates how galaxies or...
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Christiaan Huygens episode Het Klokhuis recorded at Leiden Observatory 02 November 2021The Klokhuis dedicates a special episode to Leiden alumnus and famous scientist Christiaan Huygens. Part of the episode was recorded at the Leiden Obs...
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Towards molecular complexity in birth places of stars: Formaldehyde formation from carbon atoms reacting with water ice 02 November 2021Scientists at Leiden University (Netherlands), Stuttgart University (Germany) and Ural Federal University (Russia) have successfully put forward a nov...
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A+ for Leiden astronomy student who simulated chaotic interactions of black holes 20 October 2021Leiden astronomy Master's student Arend Moerman has received an A+ for his thesis research on the simulation of chaotic interactions of three black ho...
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Volcanic ‘activity’ in black holes blows monumental bubbles of hundreds of thousands of light-years 19 October 2021An international team of researchers observed the full extent of the evolution of hot gas produced by an active black hole for the first time. As it e...
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In Leiden, Indigenous artists share their view of the night sky 14 October 2021On Saturday October 16, the special exhibition ‘Shared Sky: Canvases of the Universe’ opens in the Old Observatory in Leiden. The exhibit takes a cult...
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Astronomers see disk around young super-Jupiter which may form moons 13 October 2021An international team of astronomers led by scientists from Leiden Observatory has for the first time characterised a dust disk surrounding a young su...
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Auroras on nineteen stars hint at hidden exoplanets 11 October 2021An international team of scientists including Leiden's Joe Callingham has discovered nineteen red dwarf stars that unexpectedly emit radio waves. The ...
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The hunt for an earth-like exoplanet 30 September 2021Astronomer Frans Snik searches for extraterrestrial life. He doesn’t so much look at stars as at the ‘exoplanets’ alongside them.
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Can astronomers limit climate change? 24 September 2021Can astronomers mitigate climate change? This is what Leiden astronomer Leonard Burtscher and his colleagues discussed at the annual meeting of the Eu...
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Astronomer Joe Callingham testifies against killer stars in new show on Discovery Channel 17 September 2021On Friday evening 17 September, Leiden astronomer Joe Callingham can be seen in a new series on Discovery channel. Killers of the Cosmos is about diff...