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New x-ray telescope XRISM launched successfully
Early Thursday morning, Sept. 7, the Japanese Space Agency successfully launched a new X-ray telescope: XRISM. Now, XRISM is at the end of its critical period, and the calibration phase has begun. There is a Dutch ... -
New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars
Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don’t know exactly how they form. Now, using ... -
Funding for astrochemistry research with James Webb Space Telescope
Dr Alessandra Candian (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy) and Prof. Wybren Jan Buma (Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences) have obtained funding through the Dutch Astrochemistry Network (DAN) as part of ... -
Winners Dutch Astronomy Olympiad 2023 announced
Stan de Haas of Rijnlands Lyceum in Sassenheim has won the Dutch Astronomy Olympiad 2023. He gets to visit several telescopes of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the Canary Island of La Palma. Dorus van den ... -
Astronomers observe giant tail of helium gas escaping from Jupiter-like exoplanet
A team of astronomers including Dr. Antonija Oklopčić of the University of Amsterdam has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory to discover ... -
Oeuvre prize for Ed van den Heuvel
Astronomer Ed van den Heuvel (Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam) receives the Langerhuizen Oeuvre Prize. This was announced by the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen. Van den ... -
NWO grant for telescope that can film black holes in colour
The Dutch Research Council, NWO, has awarded a grant of 3.45 million euros to a Dutch team, together with British and Namibian astronomers, that will enable the first colour movies of black holes. The astronomers ... -
University of Amsterdam organizes Dutch Astronomy Olympiad 2023
The 2023 Dutch Astronomy Olympiad will be organized by the astronomers of the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy of the University of Amsterdam. Between April 7 and May 7, all students from 5 HAVO and 5 and 6 ...
