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Peter Laursen
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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.
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.
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by Peter Laursen
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...
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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...
cosmicdawn.dk
May 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I like Lyman α for many reasons, including its ability to probe reionization:
March 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by Peter Laursen
In an extensive study on galaxy evolution through cosmic time, Marko Shuntov presents a plethora of interesting result, including how the total mass of the galaxies' stars and dark matter are related?

🇬🇧 cosmicdawn.dk/news/new-ins...
🇩🇰 cosmicdawn.dk/news-in-dani...
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James Webb giver ny indsigt i galaksernes vækst og deres mørke stof - Cosmic Dawn Center
Kortlægning af en kosmisk historie: Et internationalt hold af forskere, ledet af astronomer på Cosmic Dawn Center i København, har udgivet et omfattende studie af, hvordan galakser og deres mørke stof...
cosmicdawn.dk
February 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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!
February 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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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
September 7, 2023 at 6:45 AM