News from DAWN
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Bitten Gullberg awarded the Villum Young Investigator grant
Congratulations to Bitten Gullberg who has just been awarded DKK 5.5 million by the Villum Foundation through their Young Investigator Programme, funding her project “Exploring the infLuence of the Local envIronment on the Production of Stars In Starbursts” (ELLIPSIS).
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Charlotte Mason awarded large grant from the Carlsberg Foundation
Charlotte Mason has received the “Semper Ardens: Accelerate” grant from the Carlsberg Foundation of DKK 5,000,000. The grant will be used to investigate how, and when, the first stars in the Universe formed.
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Record distant galaxy confirmed with the James Webb Space Telescope
After half a year of frequent new candidates for the most distant galaxy ever seen, astronomers have finally acquired the conclusive evidence: a spectrum, allowing the researchers to measure the exact wavelengths of the light emitted from the galaxies in the past, and hence to determine their distances unambiguously. Four galaxies have been confirmed, with the most distant one seen only 320 million years after the Big Bang.
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Astronomers discover enigmatic cosmic explosion
Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the Universe, resulting from either collapsing stars or from the collision of two compact stellar remnants. But a recent discovery fits in neither, or both, of these categories, challenging our understanding of their source. Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute played an important role in the study that may lead us to revise our theories about these violent events.
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Kasper Heintz receives EUR 207,000 from the Villum Foundation for building a new binocular telescope