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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
New insights into galaxy growth and dark matter from James Webb
Mapping cosmic history: An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, has released a comprehensive study on how galaxies and their dark matter have evolved across most of the history of the Universe. Spanning 11 billion years, this unprecedented survey reveals unexpected patterns in galaxy mass, growth rates, and the relationship between galaxies and dark matter. The study challenges existing models of galaxy formation and hints at a new understanding of how these immense cosmic structures emerged.
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Webb provides a new detailed look into the formation of the first galaxies
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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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