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Welcome to the Cosmic Dawn Center
The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is an international basic research center supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.
DAWN is located in Copenhagen at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and at the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space).
The center is dedicated to uncovering how and when the first galaxies, stars and black holes formed, through observations with the prime telescopes of the next decade (ALMA, JWST, Euclid, E-ELT, HST) as well as through theory and simulations.
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News
Webb provides a new detailed look into the formation of the first galaxies
In the past few years, the James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of how the first stars and galaxies formed in the early Universe. Now, an international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, have published the first, large-scale study of more than 600 galaxies observed within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This survey moves the field from studying the first few discoveries with Webb, to establishing large, statistical samples of galaxies. Intriguingly, this study reveals how some of the earliest galaxies accrete massive amounts of pristine gas from their surroundings, a sign that we are now seeing the formation of galaxies in progress.
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Pengpei Zhu awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy
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Charlotte Mason receives large ERC grant to study structure formation in the early Universe
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Chinese-French mission to study exploding stars launched successfully
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James Webb discovers record-distant galaxy, again
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James Webb opdager rekordfjern galakse, igen
Astro-Pic Of the Day
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