In the context of the Visiting Professorship program of the institutes of Physics and Astronomy of the UvA and the VU, Prof. Duncan Galloway will visit Amsterdam for two months starting on the 16th of May 2025. ...

API PhD student Stefanie Fijma has been awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This allows her to pursue independent research at ESO headquarters in Garching, Germany.

Black holes, even relatively small ones, leave dramatic "footprints" in space that extend far beyond their immediate vicinity—like ripples from a pebble dropped in a pond. New research by a team including Jakob van ...

A small team of astronomers, among whom Silvia Toonen of the University of Amsterdam, have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a ...

Astronomer Nathalie Degenaar of the Anton Pannekoek Institute receives a Vici. This was announced by research financier NWO. She will receive a maximum of 1.5 million euros to develop an innovative line of research ...

An international team of astronomers led by scientists from the Anton Pannekoek Institute of the University of Amsterdam has shown that a white dwarf and a red dwarf orbiting each other every two hours are emitting ...

It won't have escaped your notice: Several planets are currently visible. At the time of writing this blog (Feb. 12), you can see 4 naked-eye planets and the moon. If you had a telescope there are even 6 planets ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists in a team led by Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet ...