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Reported record-distant explosion turns out to be probably just a piece of space junk

A perspective into how science sometimes operates: Even with the most careful measures taken to…

UCPH astronomers find six distant – and mysteriously dead – galaxies

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), among…

Astronomers spot the same supernova three times — and predict a fourth sighting in 16 years

The enormous gravitation of a cluster of galaxies warps space to the extent that light from distant…

Kasper Heintz is awarded 180 hours at the Very Large Telescope to study fast radio bursts

In an exceptionally large program, postdoc and DAWN affiliate Kasper Heintz will now have the…

Johan Fynbo receives DFF grant

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) has just awarded 191 grants for new research projects,…

The early Universe:

ALMA Discovers Rotating Infant Galaxy with Help of Natural Cosmic Telescope

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center at…

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE:

Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations

Cosmic Dawn Center – a collaboration between Technical University of Denmark and the Niels Bohr…

Georgios Magdis receives Villum Young Investigator Plus grant to investigate the beginning of galaxies

With the Villum Young Investigator Plus, he will be able to look even further into the past, to the…

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Morten Kjærgaard and Charlotte Mason, are amon…

The Evolution of Galaxies :

Understanding galaxy evolution

Studying how galaxies evolve takes more than just observing them and noting their properties. A…