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Welcome to the Cosmic Dawn Center
The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is a new 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
Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears
Through a fortuitous alignment of distant galaxy with a massive foreground cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes the cosmic Dawn Center discovered a single star across most of the entire observable Universe. This is the farthest detection of a single star ever. The star may be up to 500 times more massive than the Sun. The discovery has been published today in the scientific journal Nature.
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Seiji Fujimoto awarded the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship
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Karina Caputi receives a large grant from the Dutch Research Council
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New analysis leads to a fundamentally different view of supermassive black holes
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Claudia Lagos awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Astronomer prize
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Kasper Heintz receives Carlsberg Reintegration Fellowship
