DAWN

James Webb Teleskopet.
18. February 2020

DAWN: The core of the biggest galaxies was formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang

An international research team, including researchers from the Center of Excellence Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) at the Space Division at the Technical University of Denmark and…

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En kunstnerisk fremstilling af, hvordan glaksen MAMBO-9 ville se ud i synligt lys. Galaksen er meget støvet og mange stjerner er forsat under dannelse.
16. December 2019

Astronomers discover a giant star-forming galaxy from the childhood of the universe

An international research team has discovered a distant, dusty, and very star-forming galaxy 13 billion light-years away. That makes the galaxy the farthest known of…

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Et europæisk forskerhold har anvendt data fra instrumentet X-shooter på ESOs Very Large Telescope til at identificere strontium, som er dannet ved et neutronstjernesammenstød. Illustrationen viser to små, men eget tætte neutronstjerner lige idet de smelter sammen og eksploderer som en kilonova. I forgrunden ser vi det nydannede strontium
1. November 2019

Major space news from DAWN: The final piece in the puzzle of the origin of the elements

Press release from University of Copenhagen: The first unequivocal evidence of where the heaviest elements were forged has now been found by a research group…

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4. October 2019

Discovery of the most remote galaxy cluster in the making moves the limit of our understanding of the cosmic dawn

An international research team, including researchers from the Center of Excellence Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) at the University of Copenhagen, has discovered a very remote…

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Graphic illustration of the explosion when a star dies.
25. January 2019

New study in Nature Letters confirms theory about gamma ray bursts

Researchers from the DNRF’s Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) are part of a big international study in which researchers have analyzed observations of distant gamma ray…

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Peter Laursen, post-doc at the University of Oslo and affiliated with the DNRF center DAWN, is the winner of Forskerzonen’s prize for best research communication 2018.
16. January 2019

DAWN-affiliated post-doc Peter Laursen wins award for best research communication at Forskerzonen in 2018

Astrophysicist Peter Laursen, a post-doc at the University of Oslo and also affiliated with the DNRF Center of Excellence Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) at the…

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Photo of the galaxy cluster Abell 370, which has a distance of 4 billion light years from Earth.
28. September 2018

DAWN leads big project on early galaxies of the universe

Associate Professor Charles Louis Steinhardt from the basic research center Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) at the Space Division at the Technical University of Denmark and the Niels…

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Illustration
15. August 2018

New observations confirm theory connecting gamma ray bursts with neutron star merger

A major international research collaboration with researchers from the DNRF Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) and from the former DNRF Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK) has confirmed…

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26. June 2018

Inauguration of DAWN – The Cosmic Dawn Center

Last week, a new Center of Excellence, the Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), officially opened. During the next six years, head of center Sune Toft, together…

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