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Unknown Treasure Trove of Planets Found Hiding in DustThu, 2018-12-06 "Super-Earths" and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by an international collaboration of astronomers suggests. |
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The 2018 KIAA-PKU Astrophysics Forum Held at KIAAWed, 2018-12-05 The 2018 KIAA-PKU Astrophysics Forum was held on Dec. 3-4, 2018 with the topic “China’s Future Ground-Based Astronomical Facilities”. More than 100 participants attended the forum. |
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A Monograph of Pulsar Physics by PKU-AstronomersSun, 2018-11-25 Recently, a monograph titled Pulsar Physics has just been published by Peking University Press in Chinese. The authors (Xinji Wu, Guojun Qiao and Renxin Xu) are three astronomers from Peking University. |
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PKING (PKU-KIAA Innovation NSFC Group) Project Held its Kick-off MeetingWed, 2018-11-14 On November 12, 2018, the kick-off meeting of the PKING (PKU-KIAA Innovation NSFC Group) project was held at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University, with the goal of introducing an overview of the project and launching its |
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3 Postdocs Won the 64th China Postdoctoral Science General GrantTue, 2018-11-13 The awardees at KIAA and DoA take 3 out of 10 in the field of astronomy in China. |
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Astronomers Unveil Growing Black Holes in Colliding GalaxiesFri, 2018-11-09 A team of researchers led by Michael Koss (Eureka Scientific Inc.), and including Claudio Ricci, long-term visiting professor at KIAA, performed the largest survey of the cores of nearby galaxies in near-infrared light, using high-resolution images taken by NA |
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Weighing planets and asteroids: Pulsar observations enable mass estimates for Ceres and other solar system objectsTue, 2018-10-23 A team of scientists from the `International Pulsar Timing Array’ consortium, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has used pulsar timing data to measure the masses of the dwarf-planet Ceres and other asteroid |
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Discovery of the Largest Protocluster of Galaxies in the Distant UniverseTue, 2018-10-16 An international team of astronomers at KIAA-PKU discovered a giant protocluster of galaxies at redshift 5.7, when the Universe was only one billion years old (about 7% of its current age). |
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Scott Tremaine Series Academic Activities Held at PKUWed, 2018-10-10 On October 8-9, 2018, ‘Scott Tremaine Series Academic Activities’ was successfully held at Peking University (PKU). |
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New Chairs and Member Join KIAA Governing Board and Science Advisory CommitteeFri, 2018-09-28 Qihuang Gong, Sandra Faber, Robert Kennicutt and Michael Kramer join KIAA GB and SAC. |
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