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Former PhD Student Feige Wang Awarded the 2019 Hubble Fellow

Fri, 2019-04-12  .

Vice President of the Kavli Foundation Kevin Moses visits KIAA, meets with Vice President of Peking University Dr. Ga

Fri, 2019-03-22  

An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp’s precession traced by classical Cepheids

Tue, 2019-02-05  Astronomers from KIAA-PKU and National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences have used 1339 ‘standard’ stars to map the real shape of our home galaxy in a paper published in Nature Astronomy.

Gregory J. Herczeg Awarded Peking University Friendship Award

Fri, 2018-12-28  .

A Team in KIAA Joined the KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Scientific Collaboration

Wed, 2018-12-19  Three members, Lijing Shao (leader), Kohei Inayoshi and Yong Gao (1st-year PhD) have joined the KAGRA collaboration.

Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Astrophysics visited KIAA

Tue, 2018-12-11  Prof. Mats Carlsson visited KIAA on December 10, 2018. Prof. Carlsson is a well-known solar physicist from the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway. He is a Fellow of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (NASL) and a Fellow of

Unknown Treasure Trove of Planets Found Hiding in Dust

Thu, 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.

The 2018 KIAA-PKU Astrophysics Forum Held at KIAA

Wed, 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.

A Monograph of Pulsar Physics by PKU-Astronomers

Sun, 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.

PKING (PKU-KIAA Innovation NSFC Group) Project Held its Kick-off Meeting

Wed, 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