The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially adopted ARRAKIHS as a scientific mission, confirming the target launch date of 2030. Matthieu Schaller is part of the Science Team: ‘I look forward to le...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Science Programme Committee has adopted the Arrakihs mission. Planned for launch by the end of 2030, Arrakihs will capture the faint light from nearby galaxy haloes. ...

Leiden scientists lead COLIBRE, a groundbreaking set of cosmological simulations. By including key missing physics, cold gas and cosmic dust, they offer the most realistic picture yet of how galaxies ...

Kepler liet al zien dat de baan van een planeet rond een ster altijd heel eenvoudig is: een ellipsvorm. Met drie sterren of planeten die rond elkaar draaien wordt de wiskunde echter veel ingewikkelder...

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The Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics group investigates the formation and evolution of large-scale structures in the Universe, the nature of dark m...

Today is Q1 Day! This means the first public release of data from the full Euclid Survey. It's only a very small portion (0.4%) of the survey - just 63 square degrees on the sky, while the full survey will be over 14,000 square degrees - but in contrast to earlier data releases, this has been passed through the full Euclid Ground Segment so it represents the true quality of the data we can expect for the rest of the mission.