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Stream of stars in Andromeda satellite galaxy shows cosmic collision

The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. Researchers from NBI, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Galaxy’s outer satellite galaxies, called Andromeda II.

Tolga Bağcı

Opto-Electromechanical Device for Low-Noise Detection of Radio Waves Supervisor: Prof. Eugene Simon Polzik

Mars research receives FNU grant

Morten Bo Madsen, who leads the Mars Group in Astrophysics and Science at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of just over 3.8 million kroner from FNU, the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural…

First images of star cluster from the Gaia Satellite

The Gaia Satellite has already sent its first images down to Earth approximately 40 days after its launch on the 19th of December. They show a dense collection of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud at a distance of…

Morten Dam Jørgensen

Exotic Long Lived Particles

Sune Jakobsen

Commissioning of the Absolute Luminosity For ATLAS detector at the LHC

Early galaxies grew massive through collisions

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang

6.7 million DKK for Danish CERN research

Research at CERN receives 6.685 million Danish kroner from NUFI, the National Committee for Research Infrastructure under the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The funds are granted for the operation…

Myriam Guillevic

Characterization of rapid climate changes through isotope analyses of ice and entrapped air in the NEEM ice core Academic advisor: Thomas Blunier

Allan Finnich

An investigation in introducing Matlab and data analysis in introductory physics Supervisor: Ian G. Bearden

10.8 million kroner for research into quantum information technology

Two researchers, Mark Rudner and Michael J. Kastoryano from the Niels Bohr Institute, have received support from the VILLUM FOUNDATION’s Young Investigator Programme for research into quantum information technology.

Teddy Fjeldgaard Frederiksen

NURSERIES OF SUPERNOVAE A STUDY OF YOUNG HIGH REDSHIFT TYPE IA SUPERNOVA HOST GALAXIES Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Martina Falco

DYNAMICS OF GALAXY CLUSTERS AND THEIR OUTSKIRTS: beyond the virialization regime Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

BØRSEN: Synbio Opens New Road for Industry

A feature article with the aims of the Danish Center for Commercialization of Synthetic Biology: To start a new industrial revolution in Denmark

Eugene Polzik’s research chosen as the year’s best by Ingeniøren

Ingeniøren (The Engineer) has chosen Eugene Polzik’s research on teleporation as the year’s most important Danish research results in science. Eugene Polzik is the head of the research group Quantop at the Niels Bohr…

Peter Sperlich

d13C-CH4 in ice core samples: Analyses, referencing and data interpretation approaches Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

Ice and Climate participates with a newly developed drilling system in the Antarctic project

A completely new drilling system will give faster, easier and cheaper access to good climate data. Through 1 1/2 years of intensive work the Center for Ice and Climate has further developed the equipment to the legendar…

Ernesto Kettner

Highly Resolved Paleoclimatic Aerosol Records: Continuous Flow Analysis and the Potential of Flow Cytometry for the Characterisation of Aeolian Dust in Polar Ice Cores Academic advisor: Thomas Blunier

Centre people to Antarctic

In the beginning of December 2013 three scientists from the Centre for Ice and Climate fly to the Antarctic.

Stefan Geier

PIECES TO THE PUZZLE OF HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES FALLING INTO PLACE Supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo

Elena Sacchi

Constraining mass and shape of galaxy clusters through large scale structures Supervisors: Lauro Moscardini and Steen H. Hansen

Decay used to construct quantum information

Usually, when researchers work with quantum information, they do everything they can to prevent the information from decaying. Now researchers at NBI have flipped things around and are exploiting the decay to create…

Congratulations to Myriam Guillevic

Congratulations to Myriam Guillevic from Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Wednesday, November 20, 2013.

Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighbourhood

Gamma-ray bursts are violent bursts of gamma radiation associated with exploding massive stars. For the first time ever, researchers from DARK, among others, have observed an unusually powerful gamma-ray