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Søren Larsen

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Astronomer at Radboud University. Studying nearby galaxies with ESA's Euclid mission. Member of the ELT/MOSAIC consortium. Doing astrophotography for fun.

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Happy (northern) winter solstice to all who celebrate!

21.12.2025 15:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's nice when they add an extra touch to the usual dull announcements. Like a couple of days ago when the conductor announced that we were going to be late because the driver was stuck in the loo..

13.11.2025 11:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Dioptrice | Radboud University Press

So I did a thing - you can now read Johannes Kepler's book Dioptrice in an English translation. Here Kepler offered the first theoretical account of how a telescope works, among other things. Published open access:
books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...
#astronomy #optics #telescopes

19.05.2025 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Venus today at 14:21 CET. Nikon D80 and 6" Newton w. 26 mm eyepiece. 1/500 sec
#Venus #astrophotography #astronomy

16.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Venus and Mercury in the evening sky

Venus and Mercury in the evening sky

Venus and Mercury tonight, from Hilversum, the Netherlands.
#astronomy #astro #Venus #Mercury

06.03.2025 20:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Euclid discovers a stunning Einstein ring Euclid, the European Space Agency’s dark Universe detective, has made an astonishing discovery – right in our cosmic backyard.

I believe this is from this recent Euclid release, not JWST: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

22.02.2025 12:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

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