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Green light for construction of the E-ELT

The ESO Council has now decided to start building the new large European telescope E-ELT (European…

Cosmic distances:

Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The…

Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole

Astronomers have observed a mysterious phenomenon, which could be a massive black hole that has bee…

New Danish telescope for researching stars and Earth-like exoplanets

The first telescope in the Danish led telescope network will be officially opened on 25 October,…

Comet headed for Mars

On Sunday evening, 19 October 2014 at 20:30, a comet will come closer to colliding with Mars than w…

FNU YDUN-grants:

Over 12 million kroner to two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Astrophysicist Lise Bech Christensen from the DARK Cosmology Centre and particle physicist Stefania…

Cosmic grains of dust formed in supernova explosion

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University…

Grants from FNU to Astrophysics and Biophysics

Two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, Marianne Vestergaard at the Dark Cosmology Centre and…

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, new adjunct professor of high energy astrophysics

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, USA…

New insights into gamma-ray Burst afterglows

Gamma-ray bursts are powerful bursts of gamma radiation in connection with the explosive death of…

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