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Rare cosmic sight

Astronomers observe four images of the same supernova using a cosmic lens

Astronomers have for the first time observed a supernova multiply-imaged due to gravitational…

Astronomers find dust in the early universe

Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new…

Two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute receive large ERC grants

Two researchers in astrophysics - Sune Toft, associate professor at the Dark Cosmology Centre and…

Snapshot of cosmic burst of radio waves

A strange phenomenon has been observed by astronomers right as it was happening – a ‘fast radio…

Coveted ERC Grants -

ERC grants for two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Two researchers from NBI, Albert Schliesser, Assistant Professor in Quantum Optics and Oliver…

The world’s largest telescope

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…

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