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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.
Read MoreSince 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.
Read MoreSince 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.
Read MoreDAWN 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.
Read MoreTuesday 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.
Read MoreUtilizing 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.
Read MoreCongratulations to Francesca Rizzo, who has just been awarded the Max Society’s “Otto Hahn Medal” for her original and groundbreaking work into the kinematic and dynamical properties of high-redshift galaxies.
Read MoreAssistant professor Francesco Valentino has been awarded the “B.I.R.D.” prize in the class of Physical and Engineering sciences in 2022 for his research on the early formation and evolution of the first quiescent galaxies in the Universe.
Read MoreWhile some galaxies form stars at a continuous rate, others die out and lead a more passive life. What made these galaxies stop forming stars at an early age is not well established, not the least because they are so distant and faint that they evade being observed. But looking at the combined light from thousands of galaxies, a team of astronomers including the University of Copenhagen showed that black holes helped turn off star formation.
Read MoreClimate change gives rise to more unstable weather, local droughts and extreme temperature records, but a coherent theory relating local and global climate is still under active development. Now a Danish astrophysics student at the Niels Bohr Institute used a mathematical approach —inspired by research in the Universe’s light — to unveil how global temperature increase engenders locally unstable weather on Earth.
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