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First images of mist dispersing around young galaxy 17 September 2018Galaxies in the early universe are shrouded in a kind of mist: a cloud of hydrogen. With galaxies in the later universe this mist has disappeared. Ast...
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K.J. Cath Prize: making a difference by communicating science 03 September 2018Astronomer and science communicator Pedro Russo is awarded the K.J Cath Prize and € 2,500 for his outreach efforts that bring science to the general p...
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Discovering new physics in extremely bright neutron stars 07 August 2018Astronomer Alexander Mushtukov, currently working at the University of Amsterdam, received a Veni grant of 250,000 euro’s which he will execute in Lei...
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Veni grant for research into the youngest exoplanets 16 July 2018The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded Leiden astronomer Giovanni Rosotti a Veni grant for research into very young exoplane...
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‘SRON and South-Holland can reinforce each other well’ 13 July 2018SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. In 2021, the Utrecht branch will settle in South-Holland. Pieter Dieleman is group leader at ...
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Planet formation starts before a star is fully grown 25 June 2018A team of European astronomers under Leiden leadership has discovered that dust particles around a star already coagulate before the star is fully gro...
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Newton-telescope finds missing intergalactic material 20 June 2018Astronomers from, among others, SRON and Leiden Observatory have discovered long-sought intergalactic gas with ESA’s space telescope XMM-Newton. This ...
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Dancing with giants: dynamics of dwarf satellite galaxies 14 June 2018Dwarf satellite galaxies in the Milky Way perform different dances than researchers initially expected. Marius Cautun from Durham University received ...
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Ewine van Dishoeck wins Kavli prize for astrophysics 31 May 2018How are stars and planets formed? Is life outside Earth possible? These questions are being researched by Professor of Molecular Astrophysics Ewine va...
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Move of SRON space research institute to South Holland now official 30 May 2018By adding their signature to the collaboration agreement on 31 May, Leiden University, TU Delft, space research institute SRON and NWO confirmed the...
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Marie Curie grant for dark matter 22 May 2018Leiden Observatory is going to use a new technique to carry out calculations on gravitational lensing measurements. They will do this is the context o...
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Dutch astronomers photograph possible toddler planet by chance 08 May 2018A group of astronomers was actually examining the dust disc around the young double star CS Cha, when they saw a small dot on the edge of their images...
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Universe Awareness presents home-made laser show in Botswana 04 May 2018How do you offer high-quality and interesting education with simple means? Universe Awareness of Leiden University spoke about this during the annual ...
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'Stephen Hawking put abstract science on the map' 14 March 2018Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (76) passed away on 14 March at his home in Cambridge, having been a long-term sufferer of the muscular disease ...
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Chemistry can change the ingredients in planet formation 01 March 2018Which molecules go into forming planets? PhD candidate Christian Eistrup and his colleagues have created new models to research this question. Their f...