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News on Astrophysics

Dance of electrons measured in the glow from exploding neutron-stars

The temperature of elementary particles have been observed in the radioactive afterglow following…

"Islands" of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem

When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that…

The first galaxies:

James Webb discovers record-distant galaxy, again

With the confirmation of two galaxies seen around 300 million years after the Big Bang, we are now…

Birth of universe’s earliest galaxies observed for first time

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, University of Copenhagen researchers have become the first to…

First results from ESA’s space telescope Euclid

Today, the first scientific studies using data from ESA’s latest space telescope, Euclid, have been…

Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly

University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars…

Quantum physics

Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole

University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find…

Gamma-ray burst:

Webb observes the glowing embers of colliding neutron stars

A a team of researchers including astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute has used the James Webb…

Colliding neutron stars provide a new way to measure the expansion of the Universe

In recent years, astronomy has seen itself in a bit of crisis: Although we know that the Universe…

THE EARLY UNIVERSE:

Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in…