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Congratulations to Shouwen Jin, who for the second year in a row is among the most cited Chinese astronomers, earning him the prize from IOP Publishing.
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Congrats to Darach Watson and his collaborators with their successful ERC Research Synergy Grant! Their project HEAVYMETAL will provide a better understanding of the marvelous phenomenon “kilonovae” and their formation of the heavy elements in the Universe.
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While developing and testing astronomical software on existing data, a master student in astronomy fortuitously discovered a group of galaxies in the very early Universe. In addition to demonstrating the potential of the software, the finding provides insight into the assembly of massive structures, as well as how some galaxies cease to form stars.
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Using the Very Large Telescope and the radio telescope ALMA in Chile, a team of astronomers including researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute has discovered a swarm of galaxies orbiting the surroundings of a hyper-luminous and vigorously star-forming galaxy in the early Universe. The observation provides important clues to how exceptionally bright galaxies grow, and to how they evolve into energetic quasars, beaming light across most of the observable Universe.
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Kasper Heintz receives EUR 207,000 from the Villum Foundation for building a new binocular telescope
Congratulations to Kasper Heintz, who has just been awarded a grant for building and installing two cameras at two different observatories. The cameras will enable astronomers to monitor short-lived astronomical phenomena such as stellar explosions, exoplanet transits, and Earth-impacting meteors.
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Since the James Webb Space Telescope began releasing its science observations last month, candidates for increasingly distant galaxies have been reported on a regular basis. In fact, the size and the number of distant galaxies seem to challenge our understanding of how galaxies form, although there are many caveats and alternative explanations. Are we facing a cosmological paradigm shift, are we misinterpreting our data, or are the more mundane reasons? Astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen are working intensely on solving this puzzle.
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Since the James Webb Space Telescope last month began releasing its science observations, candidates for increasingly distant galaxies have been reported on a regular basis. In fact, the size and the number of distant galaxies seem to challenge our understanding of how galaxies form. But before insisting that we are facing a cosmological paradigm shift, there is a long list of reservations and alternative explanations which must be considered. Astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen are working intensely on solving this puzzle.
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DAWN postdoc Shuowen Jin has been awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. Now he has started the EU-funded project FIRSTDUST at DAWN & DTU-Space, studying dusty galaxies and galaxy clusters in the early Universe.
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Tuesday July 12 at 16:30 (CEST) the long-awaited first images will be released from the James Webb Space Telescope. A reception / press conference will be held at the Cosmic Dawn Center, DTU Space.
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Utilizing multiple radio telescopes across the world, a team of astronomers from the Cosmic Dawn Center, Copenhagen, have discovered several galaxies in the early Universe that, due to massive amounts of dust, were hidden from our sight. The observations allowed the team to measure the temperature and thickness of the dust, demonstrating that this type of galaxies contributed significantly to the total star formation when the Universe was only 1/10 of its current age.
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