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The grant will be used to study the enigmatic fast radio bursts, for which Kasper Heintz recently was awarded 180 hours of observing time at the Very Large Telescope.
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Combining observations of exploding stars and observations of galaxies, astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center have found a novel way to estimate the amount of the otherwise invisible, cold gas in some of the first galaxies — gas that will eventually condense and start forming stars.
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Astronomers from the Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies 29 billion light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies remain hidden from our telescopes, camouflaged by cosmic dust.
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Congratulations to Kate Whitaker, Pascal Oesch, Gabriel Brammer, and Fabian Walter for being among the top 1% highest cited researchers in the world.
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Congratulations to Shouwen Jin, whose PhD paper is among the top 1% highest cited papers in China during the period 2018–2020, earning him a prestigious prize from IOP Publishing.
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Congratulations to Francesca Rizzo, who has just been awarded the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics’s “Kippenhahn Prize” for her paper which was published last year in Nature.
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Birgitta Nordström has been awarded the special Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant scientific contributions and for being a valuable role model.
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Even with the most careful measures taken to ensure the validity of a scientific result, every so often some results are bound to turn out to be mistaken or inaccurate. An example is seen this week in Nature, Matters Arising, where three papers — one of which is from DAWN — enter a scientific dispute.
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Obituary: Noted Astrophysicist and senior researcher emeritus at DTU Space, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, who contributed to several significant discoveries throughout his long career, has passed away at the age of 73.
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Using the HST, the ALMA radio telescope, and gravitational lensing, astronomers from DAWN have found six galaxies in the early Universe that died by running out of gas. Exactly how they ran out is a bit of a mystery.
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