Mon, 2024-09-30 Beneath the apparent diversity and complexity in morphology, galaxies show underlying simplicity and have universally bimodal distributions of normalized specific angular momentum of stars, according to a study led by KIAA/PKU researchers Dr. Bitao Wang and Pr
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Thu, 2024-09-26 Recently, a team of astrophysicists, including Dr. Haoxiang Lin and Prof. Zhuo Li from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University and the GECAM (The Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor) t
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Tue, 2024-09-24 December 5-10, 2024
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Wed, 2024-09-11 A research team led by Ke Wang at KIAA used the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to observe two typical filamentary giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the center of the Milky Way's spiral arms (also known as the "skeleton" structure),
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Thu, 2024-09-05 In a powerful match-up of technique, instrumentation, and target, an international team of astronomers led by Jessica Speedie, under the supervision of her advisor Prof. Ruobing Dong, who recently joined KIAA, observed the well-characterized protoplanetary dis
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Wed, 2024-08-28 KIAA is delighted to announce that Prof. Ruobing Dong will join as a full faculty member.
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Mon, 2024-08-26 On August 26, 2024, the winners of the 2024 XPLORER PRIZE were announced, with Professor Yingjie Peng from the Department of Astronomy and the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University among the 49 recipients.
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Thu, 2024-08-08 A week-long international school on the topic of continuous gravitational waves was recently held between 2024 July 7 - 11 at KIAA. This was the first-ever continuous gravitational waves meeting held in China.
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Thu, 2024-07-25 The Early Phase and Initial Conditions of Galactic Massive Star Formation (EPIC 2024) was successfully held at KIAA during July 1-2, 2024. EPIC 2024 was a focused conference designed to promote scientific collaborations among the Chinese and world community of
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Mon, 2024-07-01 Recently, the international scientific journal Nature Astronomy published online the paper "A slightly oblate dark matter halo revealed by a retrograde precessing Galactic disk warp", which is jointly led by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Peki
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