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
Farthest galaxy candidate yet known discovered by James Webb
Less than a week after the James Webb Space Telescope was ready for science, the first reports of discoveries of galaxies at record distances and, consequently, at record-early times appeared in preprints. Even more remarkably, these galaxies seem to be so massive that they challenge our understanding of how structure forms in the Universe. Now the two first of these reports have undergone the mandatory peer-review and have been accepted for publication in the scientific journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, substantiating the robustness of the result. However, astronomers are still waiting for the conclusive evidence — spectroscopy.
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Shuowen Jin receives the 2022 IOP China Top Cited Paper Award
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Darach Watson receives the ERC Synergy Grant
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Master student discovers a group of galaxies clustered together in the early Universe
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Astronomers discover a swarm of galaxies orbiting a hyper-luminous galaxy
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Kasper Heintz receives EUR 207,000 from the Villum Foundation for building a new binocular telescope
