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Newly formed stars shoot out powerful whirlwinds

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have used the ALMA telescopes to observe the early stages…

Mystery of ultra-diffuse faint galaxies solved

Over the last year, researchers have observed some very faint, diffuse galaxies. The galaxies are a…

Harald of the Year:

Marianne Vestergaard receives the University of Copenhagen Teaching Award 2016

Marianne Vestergaard studies the physical processes of the quasars – their structure and evolution,…

First step in the Deep Space mission

Deep Space is a project that will use a new specially designed telescope to look far into space in…

EU supercomputer support:

Star and planetary scientists get millions of hours on EU supercomputers

The universe is full of mysteries. Mysteries that cannot be solved by observation alone, but…

Site on Mars named after Mars researcher Jens Martin Knudsen

The Danish Mars researcher Jens Martin Knudsen has had an area on Mars named after him. The site ha…

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz receives Niels Bohr Professorship for exploring the universe

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa…

Star with different internal driving force than the Sun

Astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute have observed a distant star in the constellation…

Dark Cosmology Centre in hunt for gravitational wave sources

Today it was announced that gravitational waves, a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of general…

The solar system’s ninth planet in sight

Two American researchers believe that they have found evidence that there is still a giant planet i…

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