Research in astronomy
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Cosmic fireworks from a neutron star shed light on an old black hole mystery
An international science team including UvA/API researcher Nathalie Degenaar found a neutron star that captures matter from a companion star through a violent and unstable process that was previously observed only in ... -
€18 million investment for the development and construction of astronomical instruments for the Extremely Large Telescope
A consortium led by the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) has been awarded nearly €18 million by research funding organization NWO for the next 10 years to develop and build instruments for the future ... -
Green light for Dutch LISA-contribution
A Dutch consortium in which UvA researchers Samaya Nissanke and Michael Wise are involved, as well as several members of Nikhef, received a €12 million Road Map grant that allows the consortium to become an important ... -
Henny Lamers wins U.S. prize for textbook on star evolution
The 2023 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award will be given to Henny Lamers (emeritus professor of Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam) and Emily Levesque (assistant professor at the University of Washington) ... -
Astronomers receive ERC Synergy Grant to make colour movies of black holes and build new telescope in Africa
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant, named “BlackHolistic”, of 14 million Euro to a team of Dutch, British, Finnish, and Namibian astronomers to make colour movies of black holes. The ... -
Blog: JWST: The Infrared Eye of Humankind
JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) is an Infrared telescope and successor to the great Hubble Space Telescope . It is expected to revolutionize our understanding of the universe by studying the atmospheres of distant ... -
Astronomers discover reason for flickering in black-hole accretion discs
Astronomers from several universities, including the University of Amsterdam, used a computer simulation to discover how high-frequency fluctuations in the intensity of X-rays in black hole accretion disks arise. ... -
NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies. This is shown in five new articles by an international team of scientists, including ...
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API celebrates 100 years
Save the Date! First announcement - API100 celebrations will take place in Amsterdam on 11 June 2022. More information to follow soon....