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Tue, 2026-04-28 Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics 2026 May Day Holiday Duty Roster
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Sat, 2026-04-18 Protoplanetary disks, the dust-rich gaseous disks surrounding newborn stars, serve as the birthplaces of planets. With the discovery of thousands of exoplanets and high‑resolution observations capturing a variety of fine‑scale “substructures” widespread in
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Thu, 2026-04-16 Astronomers mosaic-imaged a giant molecular filament using ALMA to reveal, for the first time, the early mass assembly history during clustered star formation in a single cloud.
The study focuses on a central question in star formation: how massive stars and
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Thu, 2026-04-16 The High-energy Transients Follow-up (HiTF) Group reported their first scientific observation via the General Coordinates Network, based on data obtained with the PKU 60-cm Telescope. The report, led by Yacheng Kang, a PhD student in Prof. Lijing Shao’s group
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Wed, 2026-04-15 Astronomers have long debated whether our Milky Way galaxy and its massive neighbor, Andromeda (M31), will eventually merge into a single galaxy in the distant future. Using improved dynamical measurements, PhD student Hao Wu and Professor Huawei Zhang in the
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Tue, 2026-02-10 The 12 yr LAMOST quasar survey since 2012 has independently discovered more than 40k quasars, making the LAMOST quasar survey currently the third-largest survey project in the world in terms of the number of quasars identified spectroscopically, second only to
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Tue, 2026-01-27 Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt
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Thu, 2026-01-15 A research team led by Prof. Lijing Shao in the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University has proposed a new Bayesian framework for gravitational-wave ringdown analysis and developed an open-source algorithm, FIREFLY, to apply to real
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Wed, 2026-01-14 Beijing, China — An international research team led by Prof. Fangzhou Jiang at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University has unveiled a new theory explaining one of the biggest astrophysical mysteries revealed by the James
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Fri, 2026-01-02 Observatories on the ground and in space captured a microlensing event when a cosmic body passed in front of a star, bending and magnifying the star’s light. Through these observations, researchers used parallax—the same phenomenon behind human depth percep
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