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Wed, 2021-05-05 Hubble Space Telescope gives astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star.
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Fri, 2021-04-02 The discovery of new features of fast radio bursts, as revealed by the FAST radio telescope, was announced as a Top-10 Achievement in Chinese astronomy in 2020.
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Thu, 2021-01-14 A team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona has observed a luminous quasar 13.03 billion light-years from Earth – the most distant quasar discovered to date. Two KIAA astronomers, Linhua Jiang and Xue-Bing Wu, joined the research team.
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Tue, 2021-01-05 Luis Ho was invited by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for an interview with the Senior Lead Editor of the AAS Journals, Prof. Frank Timmes.
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Wed, 2020-12-23 An international research team of more than 50 astronomers (including KIAA faculty Ke Wang) led by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the APEX submillimeter telescope at 5100 m altitude in Chile to look deep into the galactic p
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Tue, 2020-12-15 An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Linhua Jiang at KIAA, obtained near-infrared spectra and successfully measured the redshift of a very faint galaxy 13.4 billion light-years away, the most distant astrophysical object known to date. Meanwh
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Tue, 2020-12-15 When a star passing closely enough by a supermassive black hole is disrupted by tidal forces, the stellar debris falls onto the black hole triggering a tidal disruption event (TDE). It is commonly assumed that the accretion disk that forms circularizes effici
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Fri, 2020-11-27 KIAA postdoc Hassen Yesuf won a PKU Outstanding Postdoc Award while postdoc Rui Xu won a second 2-year PKU Boya Fellowship.
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Thu, 2020-11-26 Dr.Xu received her PhD from the Department of Astronomy at Peking University in 2017. She was awarded her first Hubble Fellowship to work at University of Wisconsin-Madison with Prof. Alex Lazarian.
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Tue, 2020-11-24 On November 21, 2020, the opening ceremony of Chinese Space Station Telescope Peking University Science Center (CSST PKU Center) was held at the Yingjie Exchange Center of Peking University.
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