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Peter Laursen

@anisotropela.bsky.social
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Astrophysicist/#scicomm'er at the Cosmic Dawn Center (NBI/UCPH), admirer of galaxies, amateur boxer, and appreciator of comic books, indiepop, and white chocolate.

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Danmarks Grundforskningsfond @dg.dk · 02/08/2026
🌞Solformørkelse👉Onsdag den. 12. august ved 20-tiden dækker Månen for omkring 84 procent af solens areal. @anisotropela.bsky.social, @cosmicdawncenter.bsky.social fortæller mere om fænomenet her👇 videnskab.dk/rummet/kig-o...
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Kig op i august: Sol og Måne formørkes, men meteorer oplyser himlen
Ikke bare Solen, men også Månen formørkes i denne måned, endda på årsdagen for en historisk skæbnesvanger måneformørkelse.
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Peter Laursen @anisotropela.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Four police officers came to my building because a person had been spotted with a suspicious instrument. It was me and my telescope, trying to image C/2025 Lemmon. I surrendered unconditionally.
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Cosmic Dawn Center @cosmicdawncenter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Behold the homemade 1.9 m radio telescope, built by DAWNers Gaurav, Kaj, Jiazhe, and Omar📡 The telescope received its first light last week, where the team was able to observe neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way from the institute's backyard. cosmicdawn.dk/news/first-l... @dg.dk
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First light from student-built radio telescope - Cosmic Dawn Center
During the last six months, academic employee Gaurav Kumar, together with master students Kaj Grimstrup, Liazhe Li, and Omar Rashdan, have built two radio telescopes. One of them now observed its firs...
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Peter Laursen @anisotropela.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I like Lyman α for many reasons, including its ability to probe reionization:
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Peter Laursen @anisotropela.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I just came back from Tromsø where I saw this. It was absolutely amazing 🤩 Flickering and shimmering around us. Even the red colors were visible to the naked eye!
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Peter Laursen @anisotropela.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
1/3 I wrote my first single-author article, and I'm proud to say the a reference to Jon Bon Jovi made it through peer review 😃 arxiv.org/abs/2309.02486
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