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Wed, 2026-08-26 When astronomers seek to understand how stars and planets form, one molecule lies near the beginning of the story: molecular hydrogen, H2. It is the most abundant diatomic molecule in the interstellar medium, a major coolant in collapsing gas clouds, and a cen
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Thu, 2026-08-20 Searching for associations between gravitational-wave (GW) signals and their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts is essential for enabling multi-messenger studies and unlocking their rich scientific potential. It was demonstrated with GW170817, the first multi-m
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Tue, 2026-07-28 The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) and the Department of Astronomy at Peking University jointly hosted the National Graduate Summer School on Planet Formation and Circumstellar Disks from July 20-24, bringing together approximately 80 pa
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Thu, 2026-07-09 Beijing, China — An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Department of Astronomy (DoA), School of Physics, Peking University (PKU), the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at PKU and the University of Chinese Academy
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Mon, 2026-06-15 The Beijing Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (B-PAC) workshop was held at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University (KIAA) on June 12, 2026, bringing together researchers from across Beijing working in physics, astrophysics, a
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Wed, 2026-05-27 When searching for undiscovered planets in the vast expanse of space, sometimes the best place to look is not up, but into data we already have. A new study led by Peking University undergraduate student Yihan Li, advised by Professor Yifan Zhou of the Univers
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Thu, 2026-04-30 On April 28, 2026, the launch meeting and implementation plan evaluation meeting of the National Key R&D Project "Quasars Survey and Related Scientific Research Based on LAMOST and Other Telescopes " were held at KIAA. More than 40 people, including leaders fr
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Sat, 2026-04-18 Protoplanetary disks 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 protoplanetary disks, our understanding of disk physics a
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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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